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From: Raoul Duke <raould@gmail.com>
To: OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Native compiler for oCaml on System Z
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:47:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ7XQb5fFrAo1J7Notdxi0J-4nsCYVPhbSajPjP6rLMek2M7ZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55A00351.2050604@inria.fr>

> Targeting LLVM or GCCJIT is an interesting but separate project.
> At least one attempt were made in the past to target LLVM, running into
> problems with the (exact) GC interface of OCaml.  Maybe LLVM improved
> recently in this department, and maybe GCCJIT can handle it too.  If
> not, I think it's a dead end.


For posterity, and for the sake of curiosity, might someone in the
know succinctly explain what the (exact) GC interface road blocks
were? Thank you!

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-10 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-09 20:35 Bull Durham
2015-07-09 21:58 ` Basile Starynkevitch
     [not found]   ` <CAGyVGgNf543Jp4thTQbN5O7xvGDJphrUWY2w_G0YtAm0LTExYQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-07-09 23:03     ` Basile Starynkevitch
2015-07-10 17:39   ` Xavier Leroy
2015-07-10 17:47     ` Raoul Duke [this message]
2015-07-10 22:15       ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-07-10 15:30 ` Mark Shinwell
2015-07-14 13:39 ` Richard W.M. Jones

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