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An update on the previous version. I thought that version already supported ARM 64-bit processors¹, but unfortunately it did not.

So another debug cycle ensued. As it turned out the code that is used to generate aarch64 instructions had a wrong #ifdef line. Once this bug was fixed, the next bug cropped up and with a mean time between a possible fix and the correct fix taking days, the whole exercise took weeks². After a week or so, the cross-compiler seemed to work. Next, I wanted to compile a native compiler for the target platform with the help of the cross-compiler. Again, time was spent, and fortunately a compiler could be build and after some more work³ it can build the FFA code on aarch64 systems.

• The scripts: ada-musl-cross-2018-04-30.tar.gz.
• A description with my signature: ada-musl-cross-2018-04-30.txt.

Some small things are left to do; the scripts can do with some clean-up and the native compilers are not tarred to a file, finally, I want to try little-endian ppc.

Update:The native compilers do not contain the gprbuild tool, this is still on the todo list.

1. Build scripts designate these processors with 'aarch64'. [↩]
2. Try the fix, start a rebuild which will take an hour if unsuccessful and 3 if successful, look at it after half a day or more, see that it failed, try something else, etc. etc. [↩]
3. It also needs an assembler and a C library [↩]

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