arm64 asm branch syntax

[Marc Glisse]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

> Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at inria.fr> writes:
>
>  for arm64, in copy*.asm, we have b.le, b.lt, b.ge.
>  In other files, we have beq, bcc, bne (without the dot).
>  I think we should stick to a single spelling, preferably the first one
>  (with a dot) because some toolchains only accept that one.
>
>  Is there an aarch64 emulator set up somewhere to test such a change? I
>  didn't see anything obvious in the testing status page, but I could
>  have missed it.
>
> I agree we should stick to the official syntax.  I wish GNU wasn't so
> pointless-extension-happy....

Another extension, llvm refuses:

add     x1, x1, x2, lsr 1

and wants this instead:

add     x1, x1, x2, lsr #1

(which GNU accepts as well)

> We have leg.gmplib.org, but it is down after some reshuffling.  When
> pile gets 32 GiB RAM it will come back (should happen this week).

Currently testing the b.cond change, thanks.

-- 
Marc Glisse