[MLton-devel] porting to x86-64

Matthew Fluet Matthew Fluet <fluet@CS.Cornell.EDU>
Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:34:28 -0400 (EDT)


> When we last discussed this on MLton-devel in February, our conclusion
> was that it shouldn't be too hard for the codegen to handle x86-64
> instructions and additional registers, to extend the compiler
> internals to deal with a new 64 bit type or two, and to extend the
> basis library with some new 64 bit structures.

I'd say this is still true, at least from the codegen point of view.  It
might be a little trickier if we wanted to support 64 bit types under x86,
because then the translation to the assembly-IL would be slightly
different for the two.



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