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From: Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@gmail.com>
To: Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer@googlemail.com>
Cc: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] AArch64 (64 bit ARM) support?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:09:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOg1smBPEGVRBTFN9eLg_FCDfR=Y2nSPKDjqRZPQ8O=CQKC44Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5372E1BA-6412-40F4-9AF7-412249E422A6@gmail.com>

Hello,

I might actually just ask ARM if they have anything for you to help
with the Aarch64 backend.
Will keep you up to date.

all the best,
Wojciech

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Benedikt Meurer
<benedikt.meurer@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-25 22:09 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
2013-03-25 22:09     ` Wojciech Meyer [this message]
2013-03-26  7:39       ` Stéphane Glondu

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