Re: GNU lightning 2.2.0 released!

[Sandro Magi]

Just FYI, the following page in the HTML documentation is missing:

https://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/manual/html_node/Registers.html

On 2022-11-16 10:17 a.m., Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote:
> GNU lightning 2.2.0 released!
>
> GNU lightning is a library to aid in making portable programs
> that compile assembly code at run time.
>
> Development:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lightning.git
>
> Download release:
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/lightning/lightning-2.2.0.tar.gz
>
>    GNU Lightning 2.2.0 extends the 2.1.4 release adding support for
> Darwin aarch64, tested on Apple M1.
>
>    Now there is the new --enable-devel-strong-type-checking configure
> option, not enabled by default, but code that works with that option
> will work on Apple M1.
>
>    This release required significant rework as the Apple abi in aarch64
> requires arguments to be truncated and zero/sign extended, unlike all
> other ports. Jit generation will understand it, and use the system ABI,
> avoiding double truncate and zero/sign extension.
>
>    Due to the significant rework, the library major number was bumped,
> and the opportunity used to reorder the jit_code_t enumeration.