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Re:Writing ARM64 Code for Apple Platforms by chrisseaton on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:21AM (#27617910)
Are they not able to stop using the register? Why keep touching a rail that you've been told might be electrified?
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Re:Writing ARM64 Code for Apple Platforms by vetinari on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:31AM (#27619056)
Their code is older than M1. That rail, when supplied by other vendors, was not live.
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Re:Writing ARM64 Code for Apple Platforms by stephencanon on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:38PM (#27622794)
But younger than Apple’s arm64 ABI, and younger than ARM’s ABI docs which reserve it for platform use. Any software intended to target multiple platforms should never have been using it.
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Re:Writing ARM64 Code for Apple Platforms by chrisseaton on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:49AM (#27619333)
Yeah I get that... but that doesn't meet the current ABI so change it.
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Re:Writing ARM64 Code for Apple Platforms by zorgmonkey on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:33PM (#27619992)
It is already fixed https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/rev/5f32dbc41afc
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