nixpkgs/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey
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
2018-04-25 15:28:55 -04:00
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1.8.5-arm-flags.patch spidermonkey: cleanup and rename versions 2016-11-21 02:46:35 +03:00
1.8.5-findvanilla.patch spidermonkey: cleanup and rename versions 2016-11-21 02:46:35 +03:00
1.8.5.nix treewide: isArm -> isAarch32 2018-04-25 15:28:55 -04:00
17.nix spidermonkey-17: fixup build with gcc-7 via Fedora patch 2017-11-12 09:07:41 +01:00
31.nix spidermonkey: replace broken links 2017-11-17 11:04:28 +00:00
38.nix spidermonkey: replace broken links 2017-11-17 11:04:28 +00:00
52.nix spidermonkey_52: 52.2.1gnome1 → 52.6.0 2018-02-28 16:05:19 +01:00
aarch64-48bit-va-fix.patch spidermonkey_17: Add one more patch for Aarch64 2017-01-29 01:34:02 +02:00
aarch64-double-conversion.patch spidermonkey_17: add AArch64 support patch 2017-01-25 00:01:54 +02:00