Landing: 78ca80800a11

Project / Subsystem

gcc / aarch64

Date

2026-09-24

Author

Karl Meakin

Commit

78ca80800a11baa49c1523e269cc7436dea521ef

Source

github

Perf win

No

Breaking

No

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gcc
subsystem
aarch64
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78ca80800a11baa49c1523e269cc7436dea521ef
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github
headline
Port NEON SHA256 intrinsics to pragma-based framework
tldr
AArch64 NEON SHA256 intrinsics are now handled by the pragma-based framework, with new assembly tests.
author
Karl Meakin
outcome
committed
performance_win
false
breaking_change
false
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tags
  • • aarch64
  • • cryptography
  • • NEON
  • • intrinsics
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date
2026-09-24T00:00:00.000Z

The NEON SHA256 intrinsics, supporting the FEAT_SHA2 feature, have been ported to GCC’s pragma-based framework. This change also introduces assembly tests for each intrinsic to ensure correct functionality. Old builtin functions and definitions have been removed in favor of the new framework.