[fpc-devel] Trunk does not build on AArch64

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Hi everyone,

I've started to look at developing FPC on the Raspberry Pi again, but 
I've run into a snag.

The unmodified trunk does not build - it fails when building system.pp 
at the ppc1 stage:

math.inc(57,7) Error: Assembler syntax error
math.inc(58,11) Error: Unrecognized opcode round
flt_core.inc(459,47) Error: Can't evaluate constant expression
flt_core.inc(461,10) Fatal: Syntax error, ")" expected but "," found

I remember noticing that AArch64 does not yet support inline assembly, 
which is what math.inc contains at the lines indicated (although "round" 
is inside a constant, so... what gives?!).  Not sure how to get around 
the issue with flt_core.inc just yet.

Gareth aka. Kit

(On another note, a number of AArch64 opcodes are missing, notably ADDS 
(add and set flags) and similar instructions - granted, a64ins.dat just 
lists the instructions and is devoid of any syntax encoding, which I 
think is partly why inline assembly is not yet implemented)


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