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Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/8] ld: Rename aarch64pe emulation target to arm64pe
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2023, Tamar Christina wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> After some discussions, we would prefer if instead of renaming actual emul target
> (which also renamed the internal macros) that we provide a `targ_emul_alias` or similar
> instead.  This would allow us to keep the current naming as is, while still supporting the
> the emul as supported by clang.
>
> This would be similar to the already existing targ_alias which is used to alias the target
> triples.
>
> I believe (from a quick look) that this should all be do-able by modifying configure.ac in a
> similar way as targ_extra_emuls currently does.

Sure, that sounds reasonable to me, too.

IIRC there were some earlier aarch64pe code in binutils, for EFI usecases 
- did that rely on keeping this name too?

// Martin