From: Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer@googlemail.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: "Gabriel Scherer" <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>,
"Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>,
oleg@okmij.org, caml-list@inria.fr, ontologiae@gmail.com,
caml@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why NOT to compile OCaml via C
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:36:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A8C54C1C-00BD-422F-98DC-19445530E45B@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111209212216.GA29092@annexia.org>
On Dec 9, 2011, at 22:22 , Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 03:05:43PM +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>> Hm, I'm not sure. It's really easy to generate LLVM code for OCaml
>> in general, the problem is getting things to interact with legacy
>> OCaml code, with exception handling being one of the most important
>> issue.
>
> As Edwin said, I don't think interaction with existing ocamlopt-
> compiled code is that important. Debian and Fedora routinely
> "recompile the world". What is more important is compatibility with C
> extensions. How difficult is just C extension compatibility? Or
> something that was mostly compatible but needed a few changes to C
> extensions?
It should work in general.
> Rich.
Benedikt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-10 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 6:57 oleg
2011-12-09 7:52 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-09 9:58 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-09 10:06 ` [Caml-devel] " Jonathan Protzenko
2011-12-09 11:03 ` Mehdi Dogguy
2011-12-09 12:08 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 12:37 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-09 14:05 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 14:30 ` Török Edwin
2011-12-09 14:51 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 23:38 ` oliver
2011-12-09 21:22 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-12-10 9:36 ` Benedikt Meurer [this message]
2011-12-10 11:34 ` Jon Harrop
2011-12-09 23:01 ` oliver
2011-12-09 23:18 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-10 0:20 ` Till Varoquaux
2011-12-10 7:35 ` oleg
2011-12-10 15:40 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2011-12-10 23:56 ` Peter Hawkins
2011-12-11 8:24 ` Basile Starynkevitch
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