Re: [Caml-list] 32 bit floats, SSE instructions

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:00:53PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> Is there not any work on allowing inline asm in OCaml?
> 
> Since ocamlopt can inline code from modules, would it be possible to
> create a 'fake' .cmx/.o file which would actually contain direct
> assembler code to be inlined?

OK, I just tried this and it doesn't work.  It seems (without looking
at the ocamlopt source anyway ...) that the .cmx file carries a
high-level representation of the code which is actually assembled in
the .o file.  When I replaced just the .o file with a similar one
carrying my assembler, OCaml inlined the original code which therefore
must have come from the .cmx.

I'm guessing that people would object to extending OCaml to allow
inline asm because it would break bytecode compilation?

Rich.

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