[MLton-devel] porting to x86-64

Suresh Jagannathan suresh@cs.purdue.edu
Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:53:03 -0500


I've heard similar things, and would tend to agree with Henry.
What facets of the code generator would need to change to
allow 64 bit types?

-- sj


On Friday 18 October 2002 05:48 pm, Henry Cejtin wrote:
> Intel definitely has a skunkworks project (I forgot the name) which is
> doing a 64-bit CPU that uses the AMD extensions.  They haven't admitted it,
> but even the Microprossesor Report said that privately they had admitted
> it. I would probably vote for that architecture since it is the least work
> and should soon be out.  The PowerPC 64-bit stuff is a bit nicer of an
> architecture (straight RISC design with a bunch of regular registers) but
> it isn't clear that it will be cheaply available.
>
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