From: Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>
To: Peter Hawkins <hawkinsp@cs.stanford.edu>
Cc: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>,
oleg@okmij.org, caml-list@inria.fr, ontologiae@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why NOT to compile OCaml via C
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:24:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111211092425.f89c540e5f89511feb712161@starynkevitch.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHV0EmYw2Jy4DLH7zoxqPm4G+k8HzUDQ4SFWMHcij4TVZC8sWg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:56:39 -0800
Peter Hawkins <hawkinsp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> There are some cool but quite dirty tricks based on computed gotos
> between functions to avoid problems with function size; see Section
> 5.2 of:
> Compiling logic programs to C using GNU C as a portable assembler
> Fergus Henderson, Zoltan Somogyi and Thomas Conway.
> Proceedings of the ILPS '95 Postconference Workshop on Sequential
> Implementation Technologies for Logic Programming Languages. Portland,
> Oregon, December 1995.
Yes, but these tricks are really dirty. They might not work when upgrading your compiler
(e.g. from GCC 4.5 to GCC 4.6).
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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
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 [this message]
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