> On Mar 24, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 10:37 -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>> 
>> Renaming armv8a -> aarch32 is going to affect almost every line in
>> the patch. We should probably drop the current patch from master-
>> next.
> 
> "AArch32" applies retrospectively to all older versions of the ARM
> architecture as well,

not really. Arm refers to aarch32 specifically when we use 32-bit on ARMv8
so atleast we are speaking same terms.

The ARM 32-bit Execution state that uses 32-bit general purpose registers, and a 32-bit program counter (PC), stack pointer (SP), and link register (LR). AArch32 Execution state provides a choice of two instruction sets, A32 and T32.

In implementations of versions of the ARM architecture before ARMv8, and in the ARM R and M architecture profiles, execution is always in AArch32 state.