Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/17] tests/tcg/aarch64: Add mte smoke tests

[Richard Henderson]

On 1/15/19 1:22 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Richard Henderson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> ??? Requires a quite recent aarch64 assembler.  Use .inst instead?
> 
> How recent? Given buster is nearing release we could start using it as a
> basis for the ARM cross compiler images. That is shipping gcc 8.2.0 as
> of now.

Not yet released.  The patches adding the support include

commit 3a0f69be5589d351453afebd0974992cff3ee4d1
Author: Sudakshina Das <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Nov 12 13:29:38 2018 +0000

    [BINUTILS, AARCH64, 8/8] Add data cache instructions
    for Memory Tagging Extension

but the most recent binutils release branch (2.31) is from June.


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