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John Ericson b9acfb4ecf 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

(cherry picked from commit ba52ae5048)
2018-04-25 15:50:41 -04:00
Jörg Thalheim 37ef0b8ab6 go_1_10: add mic92 and velovix to maintainers
cc @velovix
2018-02-22 12:16:08 +00:00
Jörg Thalheim ee5602112e go_1_10: misc/cgo/errors/test.bash no longer exists 2018-02-22 12:07:50 +00:00
Jörg Thalheim 1a9316e47d go_1_10: init at 1.10 and set as default
Changes are minor from 1.9, so let's just set it as default straight.
2018-02-22 11:40:07 +00:00