User talk:Kavuldra

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Talk:Program counter

Hello and welcome! Regarding your comment on this page: What something "really should be called" is generally not our call. We assemble an encyclopedic page, pointing to sources that call it what people call it. To impose new terminology on this will baffle the reader and will constitute original research, which should be avoided. Cheers!

And now, to nitpick, on talk pages, please use the : character to indent your remarks differently from those of the previous poster, as I have done to myself here. Spike-from-NH (talk) 03:23, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Spike-from-NH Noted, though it really isn't new terminology at all and has been used by Intel for years. It is also what I hear it being referred to mostly these days. Even the people I know that work on ARM processors call register R15 the "instruction pointer" (IP) even though documentation calls it "program counter" (PC). Maybe it's just something local to me. Pointer just seems like a more natural and intuitive word to refer to a value that holds an address of a memory location and on which arithmetic operation can be performed. Kavuldra (talk) 15:39, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings. There is nothing wrong with proposing a name change for an article. The best way to proceed is to start a new topic on the talk page of the article. You can make your case there with supporting documents. After that, it takes a consensus to change the name. But, prepare to be disappointed. The community is generally reluctant to change the name of a long existing article. By the way, when I first started, a long time ago, the computer I was working on called it the program counter. I think the name probably came from the hardware folks. It was implemented as a counter. Constant314 (talk) 19:46, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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