Misc...

[Anoq of the Sun]

Henry Cejtin wrote:
> 
> In addition to the byte order, there are some places in the C code back end
> where MLton assumes that right-shifting an int will sign extend, even though
> the ANSI C standard leaves this unspecified.  It depends on what the C compile
> you use will do on the Mac.

I intend to use gcc for Mac - but I guess I will have to verify this
issue :)

> Intel CPUs don't require any alignment considerations, although aligning things
> helps improve speed.  I don't think that there are any examples that will
> cause a problem, but it could be that some are there.

OK - thanks for the hints :)


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