On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 December 2013 19:55, Michael Hudson-Doyle > <michael.hud...@linaro.org> wrote: >> Ian Lance Taylor <i...@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
