On 2020-04-16 19:57 +0100, peter green wrote: > Interestingly andriod seems to use arm64 for the "abi"* and > aarch64 for the "instruction set" I was hoping to avoid getting into all this because it's detail almost no-one needs to care about, but there are indeed separate names for the instruction set and the ABI and and the execution state and the microarchitecture and the elf layout, and if I try to type it in here without swotting up properly I'll get it wrong :-) Wikipedia is pretty good for a summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A32#32-bit_architecture Or for full detail: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?noscript=1 > * I am not an andriod expert, but an andiod "abi" seems to be > roughly equivilent to a Debian architecture. A debian architecture is essentially defined as an ABI (but also includes a baseline ISA than can shift over time). So yes that makes sense. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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