Linaro developer summarizes use of assembler in ARM
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"Former Debian Project Leader and Linaro developer Steve McIntyre has surveyed a large number of Ubuntu and Fedora packages as part of a detailed study on the use of assembly code in Linux applications. .. According to McIntyre, some developers "have clearly seen code used elsewhere and copied it in" regardless of its actual usefulness in the software in question. He says that in many cases like this, the code is also buggy, which makes reworking it even more of a priority. "
BWAHAHAHAA!!
And exactly how is this priority code going to get re-written?
ARM does not know how to make header files to describe its registers and bit fields, unlike say Microchip and their PIC CPU compilers that has a single header file to describe each CPU and its registers and bit fields so that engineers don't have to code the register addresses and bit field operations making up unique names for everything in an arm.
Since every fscking ARM engineer would have used his own register names and bit field names, who the fsck is going to fix it all? Obviously it must be Linaro developers who know nothing about ARM header files?
I don't know why everyone won't down tools and tell ARM to fscking sort this mess out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know, hire two decent open source engineers, and start writing header files, if necessary copy what Microchip has done if none of the engineers and management are clueless and don't know how to do it properly. There is no magic in this. Only the stupidity of MBAs running the show I imagine holding everything up.