Re: [Caml-list] Beta release of OCaml 4.00.0

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 02:26:18PM +0200, rixed@happyleptic.org wrote:
> -[ Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:50:58AM +0200, Damien Doligez ]----
> > We are especially interested in testing done on exotic
> > architectures (i.e. non-Linux and non-Mac, or 32-bit processors).
> >
> > (...)
> > 
> > * Removed the obsolete native-code generators for Alpha, HPPA, IA64 and MIPS.
> 
> I can confirm that 4.00.0 no longer works on MIPS.
> 
> Pain is aleviated by the realization that the venerable Sparc did survive the
> purge, though, for some obscure reason.

I'm now maintaining an out-of-tree ppc64 backend (note: not Rhapsody,
this is for IBM POWER and Linux on Mac G5s).  In fact I fixed two bugs
in it just today.

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=fedora-ocaml.git

If someone wants to pull together all the out-of-tree backends into
one place, let me know.  I'm sort of interested in maintaining the
dropped Itanic backend too, since customers will insist on using it
for some reason.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat