From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA13397; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:42:39 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA13149 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:42:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.44.193]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g1I9gSD16368; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:42:28 +0100 (MET) Received: (from luther@localhost) by dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA21069; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:43:23 +0100 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:43:23 +0100 From: Sven To: Xavier Leroy Cc: Will Benton , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] caml on LinuxPPC Message-ID: <20020218104323.B21003@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> References: <20020212133805.H16174@cilantro.cs.wisc.edu> <20020215162558.A14578@pauillac.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20020215162558.A14578@pauillac.inria.fr>; from xavier.leroy@inria.fr on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:25:58PM +0100 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr