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GNU lightning aarch64 port

Item posted by Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <pcpa> on Wed 17 Jul 2013 12:03:22 AM UTC.

Support for aarch64 was just committed to lightning.

The new port builds and pass all test cases.

Example using the main test tool:

<pre>
root@genericarmv8:~/lightning-1.99a/check# cat > hello.tst
.data 32
hello:
.c      "Hello from aarch64!\n"
.code
        prolog
        prepare
                pushargi hello
        finishi @printf
        ret
        epilog
root@genericarmv8:~/lightning-1.99a/check# ./lightning -v hello.tst
      0x7f809c1000      stp     x29, x30, [sp,#-160]!
      0x7f809c1004      mov     x29, sp
      0x7f809c1008      mov     x0, #0xb120                     // #45344
      0x7f809c100c      movk    x0, #0x29f6, lsl #16
      0x7f809c1010      bl      0x7f80a2eed0
      0x7f809c1014      ldp     x29, x30, [sp],#160
      0x7f809c1018      ret
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Hello from aarch64!
</pre>

The port was done using the Foundation v8 emulator and the Linaro
aarch64 image from
http://www.linaro.org/engineering/engineering-projects/armv8

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