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Supporting 64-bit ARM systems

Supporting 64-bit ARM systems

Posted Jul 10, 2012 21:55 UTC (Tue) by stevenb (guest, #11536)
In reply to: Supporting 64-bit ARM systems by smoogen
Parent article: Supporting 64-bit ARM systems

Perhaps this isn't so easy for ARM as it was for x86_64. The instruction length on i386 and x86_64 is basically variable, so the x86_64 instructions sometimes are just the same opcodes with a different or extra prefix. On ARM you don't have that, ehm, luxury?

I just hope they're not going to do a 64-bits Thumb :-)


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