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

[Stuart Monteith]

Thanks - that is what I have done and am doing, I'll make sure what
ever I do squares up with what is generated.


On 15 March 2018 at 10:05, Andrew Dinn <adinn at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
>>