I'd like to voice both my own and Azul's enthusiastic support for this new aarch32 project. We will be happy to participate and contribute code & resources, including multiple additional committers.
— Gil. > On Nov 3, 2015, at 1:11 AM, Edward Nevill <edward.nev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 13:58 +0000, Joseph Joyce wrote: >> Hi Ed and Dalibor, >> >> There's no code in there from other open source projects. As far as I >> can remember the only code from elsewhere was an algorithm for >> division, which came from >> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~theom/riscos/docs/ultimate/a252div.txt >> The code was modified a bit to work for the assembler, the url from >> which it came is mentioned in the source (MacroAssembler::divide32). If >> this is a problem I can easily replace the code with a call out to a C >> (or Ed suggested using the algorithm from the ARM32-Microjit). >> >> I have now signed and sent the OCA (today) and would like to continue >> contributing to this project. If I could be added to the committers that >> would be great. > > Hi Joseph, > > That's great news. I therefore propose Joseph Joyce as an additional > committer for the aarch32 project. > > I have had a look at the divide routine in the template interpreter and > the original by Graeme Williams. I do not believe this should be an > issue as your implementation of the algorithm is completely different. > For a start yours is written in C calling the MacroAssembler methods to > generate the code, whereas his is written in some sort of BASIC > assembler. So although the algorithm is the same the implementation is > different and AIUI it is the implementation that is copyrighted. > > Dalibor: If you are happy with this may I proceed to a CFV for the > aarch32 project. > > Thanks, > Ed. > >
