ObjAsm becomes self-aware in latest DDE update
Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 25 Feb 2021 22:27:00 GMT
The assembler tool, one of the cornerstones of the Desktop Development Environment (DDE), has taken on a life of its own in the latest update which was made available to eligible developers today. The main changes include:
- The addition of support for instructions from ARMv8.0 to the very latest ARMv8.6
- Support for the IEEE half-precision floating point instructions in the VFP instruction set
- A new data type for BFloat16
- More thorough rules checking around ‘IT’ blocks
- A number of bug fixes and improvements to warning and error text
- The table of known CPUs to target has been updated, right up to the Cortex-X1
- Extra built-in variables to allow conditional assembly for a given target