[fpc-devel] Trunk does not build on AArch64

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Aah, I see - thanks Jonas.  That's a little awkward - presumably we 
can't change it to round brackets instead since that's a bit of a clash 
that can't easily be remedied, especially as such comments are fine in 
other inline assembly languages.

Gareth aka. Kit

On 18/10/2020 14:10, Jonas Maebe via fpc-devel wrote:
> On 18/10/2020 13:34, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
>> I've just seen the change you've made Sven (just looking it via diff,
>> not actually testing the code)... do the standard Pascal comments
>> seriously cause a problem in AArch64 assembly blocks?  Do the braces
>> have an actual syntactic use on that platform?
> Just like with plain ARM, some instructions in AArch64 accept register
> sets. The syntax for a register set for both ARM and AArch64 is "{ rX,
> rY }".
>
>
> Jonas
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