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From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: David McClain <dmcclain1@mindspring.com>
Cc: caml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 64-bit OCaml?
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:05:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041106050518.GA12048@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00dd01c4c3b5$70525f80$0401000a@dylan>

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:02:11PM -0700, David McClain wrote:

> I just obtained a new iMac G5 here. My cursory understanding is that this is
> a 64 bit core processor. However, when I attempted to run config for
> rebuilding the OCaml system, it reports a 32 bit system. What can or must I
> do to coax OCaml to become a 64 bit system for this processor?

Install a 64-bit OS on the machine.  Mac OSX is still a 32-bit OS.  You can
enable -mcpu=G5 to make use of the 64-bit registers and such, the pointers
are still 32-bits, which means that ocaml words will still be 32 bits.

I don't know what Apple's plans are as far as 64-bit support in the OS.

PPC linux runs native 64-bit on the G5, but it isn't all that stable, yet.

Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-06  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-06  4:02 David McClain
2004-11-06  5:05 ` David Brown [this message]
2004-11-06  9:43   ` [Caml-list] " Sven Luther
2004-11-06  5:15 ` David Brown
2004-11-06  9:41 ` Sven Luther
2004-11-06 10:06 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-11-06 12:16   ` Sven Luther
2004-11-06 15:47   ` John Carr
2004-11-07 20:18   ` Francis Dupont

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