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From: Vincent Bernardoff <vb@luminar.eu.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] mips32 backend without floating point hardware
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 12:08:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55868D01.4040603@luminar.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5586835F.9030401@inria.fr>

On 21/06/2015 11:26, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> In the meantime, hardware FP is now provided by all the processors
> that are powerful enough to run OCaml code.  Why bother?

Hi,

This is not true, for example OpenWRT routers are powerful enough to run
OCaml code, but have no hardware FP at all.

That said, it is probably enough to run non-floating point code on those
platform.

I'm using OpenWRT (on a MIPS platform without hardware FP) to develop an
IoT (internet of things) project, and I would like to use OCaml for it.
I don't need floating point in this project but I'd like to be able to
use a "normal" OCaml ecosystem (OPAM, lwt, etc…) that does not work well
in practice without ocamlopt.

I'm going to give a go to nojb's backend without FP, and see if I use my
usual OCaml libraries with it without too much headache.

Thanks!

-- 
Vincent

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-21 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-21  2:17 Nicolas Ojeda Bar
2015-06-21  9:26 ` Xavier Leroy
2015-06-21 10:08   ` Vincent Bernardoff [this message]
2015-06-22  9:30     ` Stéphane Glondu
2015-06-22 10:07       ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2015-06-23 17:57       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2015-06-22  8:00 ` Alain Frisch

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