[MLton] AMD64

[skaller]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 09:00 -0500, Matthew Fluet wrote:
> > Is AMD64 support still planned at some stage?
> 
> Yes, work is progressing on the x86_64 branch:
> 
> http://mlton.org/cgi-bin/viewsvn.cgi/mlton/branches/on-20050822-x86_64-branch/
> 
> I'll shortly be writing up a little document on where it is and where it 
> is going, but the short version is that the garbage collector has been 
> made native pointer size agnostic with configurable heap object pointer 
> representation.  There are no known regressions with respect to the 
> rewritten GC and the present 32-bit compiler.

Excellent. Thank you! I am happy to do some testing,
just give instructions. Also, I can provide SSH access 
to my box (Ubuntu, gcc 4, amd64) on an  'occasional' basis 
if that helps.

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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
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