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by saagarjha 2469 days ago
> This is highly dependent on not much changing. For example, even widening integers from 32-64bit but would break a lot of software.

As Apple designs their own silicon and calling convention, they were able to pull this off for the S3 → S4 transition (the latter of which is AArch64 running with ILP32).