Re: porting assembly x86 code

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:40:00PM +0800, KHMan wrote:
> Anyway Lua 5.0.x is sorta legacy, so those Linaro people should just
> leave it be.
> 
> Lua 5.2 is probably already as portable as it can be. IMHO porting
> Lua 5.2 to ARM 64 by keeping to C as much as possible and fixing any
> floating-point issues is too small for a bachelor's thesis project.

Steve McIntyre will be talking about it from a Debian and Ubuntu/Linaro
point of view.  There are Lua 5.0 packages there.  It's just a list of
things that might cause issue.  Lua 5.0 isn't one of them; it'll build
and run just fine on AArch64.

B.