Bug#873586: lua-torch-torch7: please add arm64

Edmund Grimley Evans edmund.grimley.evans at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 09:59:14 UTC 2017


As described in https://github.com/torch/torch7/issues/1035, it seems
that LuaJIT provides only "a limited range of 47 bits for the legacy
lightuserdata data type". Therefore, lua-torch-torch7 can only be
built and run on systems that use virtual addresses with no more than
47 bits. Today many arm64 systems, including the buildds, use 48-bit
virtual addresses.

For what it's worth, I have seen lua-torch-torch7 built successfully
on an arm64 system with 42-bit virtual addresses (and 64K pages) so
there does not seem to be any other obstacle to making it work on
arm64.



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