From: Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer@googlemail.com>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] AArch64 (64 bit ARM) support?
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:42:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5372E1BA-6412-40F4-9AF7-412249E422A6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514ED893.5040509@inria.fr>
On Mar 24, 2013, at 11:42 , Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
> On 24/03/13 00:25, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone is looking at AArch64 support for ocamlopt?
>
> I had a look at the ARM v8 / AArch64 documents when they were
> released.
>
> From a compiler writer's point of view, this architecture looks pretty
> clean and unproblematic (thanks, ARM!), so I think it will be pretty
> easy to support it in ocamlopt. It looks like one of those ports that
> can be completed in one week of work.
>
> Personally, I'd rather wait until real hardware is available, because
> developing with an emulator is a pain.
I was hoping to get access to preliminary ARM v8 hardware at my new employer later this year, so I could start adding the necessary changes to the ARM backend.
> Cheers,
> - Xavier Leroy
greets,
Benedikt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-24 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-23 23:25 Richard W.M. Jones
2013-03-24 10:42 ` Xavier Leroy
2013-03-24 18:42 ` Benedikt Meurer [this message]
2013-03-25 22:09 ` Wojciech Meyer
2013-03-26 7:39 ` Stéphane Glondu
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