[webkit-dev] Question about ARMv7 JIT maintenance by Apple

Adrian Perez de Castro aperez at igalia.com
Sat May 5 00:41:04 PDT 2018


On Sat, 05 May 2018 02:45:02 +0000, Yusuke SUZUKI <utatane.tea at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 11:27 AM Filip Pizlo <fpizlo at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> > We aren’t maintaining armv7.
> 
> OK, thanks. I'll replace ARMv7 disassembler with capstone based one once
> capstone is adopted :)

We are maintaining ARMv7 support at Igalia; but I think it is a good idea
to use Capstone for this architecture as well: we have a bit more time for
other things, while still having a good dissembler around 😉

Cheers,


--
 Adrián 🎩

> > -Filip
> >
> > > On May 4, 2018, at 7:01 PM, Yusuke SUZUKI <utatane.tea at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi WebKittens,
> > >
> > > JSC has X86, X86_64, ARM64, ARM, ARMv7, and MIPS JIT architectures.
> > > While X86, X86_64, and ARM64 is maintained by build bots configured by
> > Apple,
> > > the other architectures are maintained by the community.
> > >
> > > Recently, I'm about to adopting capstone disassembler for MIPS and ARM.
> > > And I'm also wondering if ARMv7 can use it instead of our own
> > disassembler.
> > >
> > > So my question is, is ARMv7 JIT maintained by Apple right now? Or is it
> > maintained by the community?
> > > If Apple does not maintain it right now, I would like to drop ARMv7
> > disassembler and use capstone instead.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Yusuke Suzuki
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