From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA09142; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:29:22 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA08878 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:29:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA07876 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:15:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h32IFM504021 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:15:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from katsura.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.18.21]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <132509(2)>; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:15:04 PST Received: (from ruml@localhost) by katsura.parc.xerox.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/PARC RedHat Custom Submit 1.3) id h32IF40M007139; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:15:04 -0800 From: Wheeler Ruml MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16011.10407.923099.913371@katsura.parc.xerox.com> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:15:03 PST To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Re: VxWorks? mailing list? In-Reply-To: <20030330122643.D22539@pauillac.inria.fr> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" XEmacs Lucid X-Spam: no; 0.00; wheeler:01 posix:01 non-trivial:01 powerpc:01 kernel:01 ocaml:01 center:98 module:03 interpreter:03 dynamic:03 byte-code:04 compliance:95 650:95 loading:04 labor:94 X-Spam: no; 0.00; wheeler:01 posix:01 non-trivial:01 powerpc:01 kernel:01 ocaml:01 center:98 module:03 interpreter:03 dynamic:03 byte-code:04 compliance:95 650:95 loading:04 labor:94 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > > Has anyone heard of running OCaml programs under the VxWorks real-time > > OS from WindRiver? > > Its "POSIX compliance" is narrow. Code is generally cross-compiled > and deployment is much more like loading a module into a dynamic > kernel rather than launching a POSIX process. I would expect that > some non-trivial labor would be involved in porting the build > process for the byte-code interpreter to make it live with the > VxWorks cross-development tools Oh my. OK - thanks very much for the advice. The VxWorks target would be PowerPC, but it sounds like porting even the byte-code interpreter is no sure thing. Wheeler -- Wheeler Ruml, Palo Alto Research Center, Rm 1522, 650-812-4329 voice ruml@parc.com, http://www.parc.com/ruml 650-812-4334 fax ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners