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From: "Alexander Bottema" <Alexander.Bottema@mathworks.com>
To: <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] [patch] PIC on amd64
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:26:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB873318D1A41648BEAC4B5AAB63B3E10C556AD3@MESSAGE-AH.ad.mathworks.com> (raw)

Hasn't support for PIC/AMD64 been fixed in the latest release of OCaml
(3.09.1)? Or have you found a bug in 3.09.1? I've tried to (native)
compile a simple program on AMD64 as a shared library and it worked
fine.

Alexander Bottema
(Software Developer @ The Mathworks)

-----Original Message-----
From: caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr
[mailto:caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Erik Bourget
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:52 AM
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] [patch] PIC on amd64


Attached is a patch that makes ocaml able to compile proper PIC code on
amd64.
This allows shared libraries to be created from ocaml code.

This patch needs work - in addition to being rough around the edges,
there is
a fairly major issue where it will generate patters as such:

some_label:
     movq camlPcre@GOTPCREL(%rip), %r13
     movq 248(%r13), %r10
     call caml_apply8@PLT
...
caml_apply8:
    call (%r10) # should call camlPcre+248

This would be cool but %r10 is clobbered by the call in some
circumstances as
it's defined as a scratch register.  Ocaml's compiler seems to have
logic to
'spill' registers onto the stack but I haven't studied it hard enough to
put
it to use; maybe someone else is more familiar and will be able to mark
registers as live when they are used in this way?  :)

- Erik


             reply	other threads:[~2006-01-25 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-25 13:26 Alexander Bottema [this message]
2006-01-25 19:53 ` Erik Bourget

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