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Re: The state of Arm64 on Raspberry Pi (and its Documentation



On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 17:01 +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Tixy wrote:
> 
> > AArch64 is the abbreviation used by ARM for their 64-bit ISA, and is
> > also used used by projects like GCC.
> 
> I read this, but it said that the naming was merged to arm64 which initiated
> from Apple. I am confused, cause the article said you can use both in GCC
> for same thing

Yeh they're probably interchangeable. AArch64/32 are Arm's 'official'
ISA names and Linux kernel engineers mostly thought they sucked [1].
Don't know what this has to do with Apple, unless it's an LLVM arch
naming thing?

-- 
Tixy


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