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John Ericson ba52ae5048 treewide: isArm -> isAarch32
Following legacy packing conventions, `isArm` was defined just for
32-bit ARM instruction set. This is confusing to non packagers though,
because Aarch64 is an ARM instruction set.

The official ARM overview for ARMv8[1] is surprisingly not confusing,
given the overall state of affairs for ARM naming conventions, and
offers us a solution. It divides the nomenclature into three levels:

```
ISA:             ARMv8   {-A, -R, -M}
                 /    \
Mode:     Aarch32     Aarch64
             |         /   \
Encoding:   A64      A32   T32
```

At the top is the overall v8 instruction set archicture. Second are the
two modes, defined by bitwidth but differing in other semantics too, and
buttom are the encodings, (hopefully?) isomorphic if they encode the
same mode.

The 32 bit encodings are mostly backwards compatible with previous
non-Thumb and Thumb encodings, and if so we can pun the mode names to
instead mean "sets of compatable or isomorphic encodings", and then
voilà we have nice names for 32-bit and 64-bit arm instruction sets
which do not use the word ARM so as to not confused either laymen or
experienced ARM packages.

[1]: https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/a-profile
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altcoins Merge pull request #39310 from Mic92/bitcoin-fixes 2018-04-23 08:36:59 +01:00
audio treewide: isArm -> isAarch32 2018-04-25 15:28:55 -04:00
backup treewide: remove placeholder usage 2018-03-27 20:14:44 +02:00
display-managers treewide: move "extensions" drvs to dir 2018-04-17 13:50:49 -05:00
editors Merge pull request #39436 from LnL7/vim-ft-nix 2018-04-25 08:36:36 +01:00
gis grass: compile with libLAS 2018-04-17 09:29:02 +01:00
graphics inkscape: Fix build on NixOS 2018-04-25 17:09:04 +02:00
inferno
kde kde-applications: Create alias to okteta 2018-04-25 09:35:50 +08:00
misc onboard: fix missing typelibs 2018-04-25 19:55:39 +02:00
networking treewide: isArm -> isAarch32 2018-04-25 15:28:55 -04:00
office calligra: 3.0.1 -> 3.1.0 2018-04-25 09:40:26 +08:00
science Merge pull request #39360 from lsix/update_motu 2018-04-25 11:46:19 +02:00
search grepcidr: init at 2.0 (#38685) 2018-04-20 15:40:28 +02:00
taxes
version-management git: Set PERL_PATH when building manual 2018-04-24 19:00:34 -04:00
video pitivi: 0.96 → 0.99 2018-04-25 15:14:17 +02:00
virtualization treewide: isArm -> isAarch32 2018-04-25 15:28:55 -04:00
window-managers Merge pull request #38692 from r-ryantm/auto-update/weston 2018-04-19 23:31:24 -05:00