Re: [ clisp-Patches-3529615 ] ARM fixes

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Bruno,

> That form of the instruction has been deprecated, and is apparently
> now illegal on whatever Fedora's koji builders use.  The new way to do
> that is this:
>
> BXEQ lr
>
> which the assembly language reference manual says is also friendlier
> to the branch prediction logic.  However, that instruction is not
> available on ARM v4 and earlier.  That doesn't cause me any issues,
> since Fedora only supports ARM v5 and later, but if you want to
> support those earlier versions, you may need a macro that expands to
> the existing form for v4 and earlier, and the new form for v5 and
> later.

do we need to support v4?

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