[aarch64-port-dev ] A word of advice please... aarch64.ad

[Andrew Dinn]

Hi Stuart,

On 15/03/18 09:08, Ningsheng Jian wrote:
> I used to do that manually.

Yes, Ningsheng is correct. After pre-processing the md4 sources you need
to insert the result into aarch64.ad manually.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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> On 15 March 2018 at 00:51, Stuart Monteith <stuart.monteith at linaro.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>   I'm looking at making changes to aarch64.ad for ZGC, and I'm
>> wondering how these fit together:
>>
>> aarch64_ad.m4
>> aarch64.ad
>> ad_encode.m4
>>
>> Now, these in the past have been changed together to keep in sync. I
>> presume the process for regenerating the sections from the .m4 files
>> is to manually run them through m4 and then manually cut & paste, but
>> I'd like to check that this is actually the case.  I've tried trawling
>> through the source code, history and mailing lists, but haven't
>> managed to find anything explicit.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    Stuart
>