[MLton] x86_64 port status

[skaller]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:30 +1000, skaller wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 20:08 -0500, Henry Cejtin wrote:
> 
> > Just out of curiosity, what Linux are you running on the AMD-64 machine, and
> > has it been pretty bug free?  Are most of the binaries in the distribution
> > compiled to run in 64-bit mode or 32?
> 
> Amd64 Linux can run both 32 and 64 bit applications,
> including a 32 bit chroot.
> 
> 64 bit is faster and more reliable. Avoid 32 bit
> applications. 

BTW: Linux is exceptionally unreliable with dynamic linkage.
Unfortunately, unresolved symbols aren't reported until runtime.
This is a disaster building shared libraries. I have found
it to be a good idea to use Cygwin to check for unresolved
symbols, since Windows linkage doesn't permit it. Static
links have no such problems.

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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
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