ARMv8 NEON: Support Windows builds w/AArch64 MinGW

Based on: c5ef665928 Closes #438
2020-07-28 18:06:20 -05:00
parent c1037f4380
commit 6ee5d5f568
2 changed files with 5 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ with `jpeg_skip_scanlines()`, and the issues could not readily be fixed.
     - Fixed an issue whereby `jpeg_skip_scanlines()` always returned 0 when
 skipping past the end of an image.

+3. The ARM 64-bit (ARMv8) NEON SIMD extensions can now be built using MinGW
+toolchains targetting ARM64 (AArch64) Windows binaries.
+

 2.0.5
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--- a/simd/arm64/jsimd_neon.S
+++ b/simd/arm64/jsimd_neon.S
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@

 #if defined(__APPLE__)
 .section __DATA, __const
+#elif defined(_WIN32)
+.section .rdata
 #else
 .section .rodata, "a", %progbits
 #endif