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

Guillaume Emont guijemont at igalia.com
Sat May 5 09:01:12 PDT 2018


Quoting Adrian Perez de Castro (2018-05-05 09:41:04)
> 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 😉

FWIW, I am in favor of using capstone as well. That's one less thing to
maintain (other than updating it), so assuming it works at least as well
(which I am assuming for now), I think it makes sense to have capstone
for ARMv7.

Cheers,

Guij


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