Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] aarch64: Decouple feature flag option storage type

2024-07-11 Thread Richard Sandiford
Andrew Carlotti writes: > The awk scripts that process the .opt files are relatively fragile and > only handle a limited set of data types correctly. The unrecognised > aarch64_feature_flags type is handled as a uint64_t, which happens to be > correct for now. However, that assumption will chang

[PATCH v2 06/11] aarch64: Decouple feature flag option storage type

2024-07-11 Thread Andrew Carlotti
The awk scripts that process the .opt files are relatively fragile and only handle a limited set of data types correctly. The unrecognised aarch64_feature_flags type is handled as a uint64_t, which happens to be correct for now. However, that assumption will change when we extend the mask to 128