RFR: 8165404: AArch64: Implement SHA512 accelerator/intrinsic

[Andrew Haley]

On 17/08/2020 13:01, Yangfei (Felix) wrote:
>> Looks good. If I were editing the Python script I'd also add
>> random.seed(0) so that the generated code doesn't change every time.

> Thanks for the quick reply.  Do you mean we need any more change?
> For the purpose for testing the instructions, it might not be a good
> idea to add random.seed(0).  This will limit the randomness of the
> register numbers used for each run.

Not really, because we paste the output into assembler.cpp so that we
use the same values every time it runs. I don't think it helps anyone
that we use different random offsets every time the test code is
regenerated.

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