Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

[peter green <plugwash@p10link.net>]

Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> How much of the arm* silliness is there actually? There's already quite
> significant changes between various arm sub-architectures,
While there have been some changes they have been gradual and  afacit it is
possible to write inline assembler that will work on pretty much any arm 
linux
system. Still some upstreams do the wrong thing (which reminds me, I need to
go file a bug against gnuradio).

Wheras AIUI from steeves talk aarch64 assembler will be totally incompatible
with 32-bit arm assembler. So any build system that ends up treating
aarch64 the same as 32-bit arm will almost certainly be doing the wrong 
thing.

>  so matching
> on arm* can already be considered a bad idea.
>
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