The apple assembler for arm64 can handle the gnu binutils style
macros just fine, so there is no need to duplicate all of these
macros in two syntaxes, when the new one works fine in all cases.
We already require a new enough assembler to support the gnu binutils
style features since we use the .rept directive in a few places.
Previously this used unofficial, apple specific syntax (with fallback
macros for gnu binutils), since Xcode 5.x didn't support the official
syntax of these instructions. Since Xcode 6 has been out for quite a
number of months already, it should be safe to require this (for
building 64 bit binaries for iOS, armv7 builds can still be built
with older Xcode versions).
This clarifies the code by avoiding apple specific syntax in the
assembler instructions.
The .align directive takes an argument in number of bits, i.e. the
actual alignment is 2^n. Previously building with binutils failed,
since 16 isn't a valid parameter to .align, the maximum is 15.
Thus, this makes the code try to align to 16 bytes, instead of aligning
to 65536 bytes.
This fixes building for android.
This also clears up the same mistake in the aarch64 code, even though
that one built just fine.
Since Xcode 5.1, the apple tools actually support using the
official, correct syntax for the ext instructions. This syntax
is already used in a number of places already - use it consistently,
and get rid of the compatibility hacks.
Previously the assembly sources had mixed indentation consisting
of both spaces and tabs, making it quite hard to read unless
the right tab size was used in the editor.
Tabs have been interpreted as 4 spaces in most cases, matching
the surrounding code.
