Bug#791931: Please support ARM64 (arm64 not in arch list, aarch not in config*)

[Simon McVittie]

Control: block 791931 by 456037

On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 at 12:03:46 -0400, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> This package fails to build on arm64, but a quick looks suggests
> this package might be useful on arm64.

According to #456037, its bytecode interpreter assumes that pointers
can be stored in int without loss of information, which is obviously not
something that can be relied on (although apparently it worked in practice
on amd64 as of 2007-2008).

So the exclusion of arm64 (amd amd64, and s390x, and all other 64-bit
ABIs) from the architecture list is deliberate: it is only built for 32-bit
architectures, where its architectural assumptions are not fatally flawed.

    smcv