Re: [PATCH] gcc-configure-common.inc: duplicate armv7a over-ride for armv8a

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

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> On Mar 24, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 15:22 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
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>> > On Mar 24, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net <mailto: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.
> 
> See the glossary at:
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> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.aeg0014g/ABCDEFGH.html <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.aeg0014g/ABCDEFGH.html>
> 
> AArch32 state
> 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.

I am not saying its any different technically. But aarch32 as term is only used w.r.t. armv8

> 
> p.


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