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> all 1200 pages of it

Sounds weak, one of the versions of ARMv8 has a spec that's exactly 6666 (!) pages. I would expect IBM to be more detailed lol



Spec or manual? The ARM Spec I've seen is also 1200ish pages whereas the programmers manual is indeed thousands of pages


Ah, they indeed have a shorter spec, but it's at 2611 pages now https://static.docs.arm.com/ddi0596/d/ISA_A64_xml_v85A-2019-...

It's actually a document generated from machine-readable XML files https://alastairreid.github.io/ARM-v8a-xml-release/


IBM doesn't do wacky stuff like Pointer authentication that creeps into every corner of the spec, making everything more complicated …




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