Re: GNU lightning 2.2.0 released!

[Paulo César Pereira de Andrade]

Em qua., 16 de nov. de 2022 às 13:15, Sandro Magi <naasking@gmail.com> escreveu:
>
> Just FYI, the following page in the HTML documentation is missing:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/manual/html_node/Registers.html

  Many thanks.

  Did not notice it was not managed by CVS earlier.

  Just pushed it.

> 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.
> >
>