Add ARM64 support (linux)

[bobbrow]

#2497 was opened as a result of missing ARM64 support on linux. Please upvote this issue if you need support for aarch64.

[xueyunquan]

I'd like to support this one. There are more and more aarch64 boards out there which run Desktop GUIs. Direct on-board coding & debugging would be very cool.

[SX-GitHub]

I bet there are more than 25 people desperately want this including myself, but nobody knows a feature request is posted here.

[sean-mcmanus]

@SX-GitHub Yes, that is 100%. We realize that only a small fraction of users will upvote, e.g. our most upvoted feature has only 300 upvotes. This issue is pretty high on the list: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc , i.e. the 9th most upvoted for the language service features.

[weizhiyi777]

These days I was working on jetson tx2 board and using vscode to program. So the support of arm64 is also very helpful to me.

[sean-mcmanus]

@bobbrow We seem to have 2 issues tracking "ARM" -- should we consolidate it to 1? I can't tell how the upvotes are for ARM in general or just ARM64, i.e. is this issue a duplicate of #429 ?

[SX-GitHub]

@sean-mcmanus This shouldn't be considered as duplicated. I've seen too many projects claiming support "ARM" but leave ARM64/AArch64 behind, one of the reasons is Raspberry Pis are so popular (ARMHF which is 32 bit) many developers prioritized ARMHF higher. However, virtually all newer Pi-like SBCs are ARM64, I'm also expecting the overdue Raspberry Pi 4 to be ARM64.

[Souldat]

Just wanted to voice my upvote for this as well. Would be really huge considering the newly added SSH remote debug / development in the latest version of visual studio code for working with systems like the raspberry pi from windows.