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Re: [patch] introduce aarch64 as a Go architecture
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- To: Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael dot hudson at linaro dot org>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, golang-dev <golang-dev at googlegroups dot com>, "gofrontend-dev at googlegroups dot com" <gofrontend-dev at googlegroups dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 01:10:19 -0800
- Subject: Re: [patch] introduce aarch64 as a Go architecture
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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Marcus Shawcroft
<marcus.shawcroft@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 December 2013 19:55, Michael Hudson-Doyle
> <michael.hudson@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
>>
>>> I've gotten a patch from Michael Hudson-Doyle to set GOARCH to arm64
>>> on an Aarch64 system (https://codereview.appspot.com/34830045/).
>>
>> Haha, go us.
>>
>>> I've gotten a patch from Matthias Klose to set GOARCH to aarch64 on
>>> such a system
>>> (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-11/msg03765.html).
>>>
>>> I don't care one way or another myself, but we need to pick one.
>>
>> I don't care too much myself. AArch64 is more correct but arm64 is more
>> obvious. Also plan9/inferno will use arm64 IIUC.
>
> All the documentation relevant to this architecture uses the term
> "aarch64". How is arm64 obvious?
The same reason Linus used arm64:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/15/133
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
>
> /Marcus