Re: [Caml-list] caml on LinuxPPC

[Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:25:58PM +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > How well-supported is OCaml under LinuxPPC?
> 
> Fairly well.  This is one of the platforms that we have easy access
> to, so every release is tested under LinuxPPC.  One of the OCaml
> developers regularly works under LinuxPPC; another recently fell in
> love with MacOSX and defected :-)  
> 
> The only known problem with OCaml for the PowerPC (Linux and MacOSX)
> is that ocamlopt can generate assembly code that fails to assemble
> on programs that contain very large functions.  The assembler issues
> an error, so it's not a case of bad code being silently generated.
> This affects native-code compilation of certain applications, such as
> Coq and (ironically) one component of the OCaml compiler (camlp4.opt,
> generated during "make opt.opt").  This was fixed recently in the
> working sources.

Could a patch be extracted of the current working source that i could apply to
the debian package ?

This is rather urgent for me, as woody freeze time is RSN, and i would rather
disable ppc native code before the freeze rather than shiping a package with
problems.

Also, did you also solve the problem on ia64, or do you not have access to
such a machine ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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