[MLton] commit r4725: Statically-linked wrapper functions for Intel Mac

[Matthew Fluet]

I committed a change that expands '.symbol_stub' to '.section ...', as 
advocated by the Apple engineers.

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, John Reppy wrote:

> I posted a question on the XCode mailing list and one of the Apple engineers
> supplied the answer.  You should generate
>
> 	.section __IMPORT,__jump_table,symbol_stubs,self_modifying_code 
> +pure_instructions,5
>
> instead of
>
> 	.symbol_stub
>
> The manual claims that these are the same, but apparently not.
>
> 	- John
>
> On Oct 28, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Matthew Fluet wrote:
>
>> 
>>> The changes seem to have addressed the problem with the regressions. There 
>>> are a bunch of ~0.0 vs. 0.0 failures in the real tests, but the other 
>>> regressions ran fine.  As expected, the FFI stuff causes the same problems 
>>> as with the math functions.  I think that you are going to have to modify 
>>> the code generator to produce the dynamic linking stubs on Mac OS X.
>> 
>> Great.  At r4732, I went ahead and modified the code generator to produce 
>> dynamic linking stubs on x86-darwin.  If you get a chance to update to the 
>> latest SVN sources and re-compile, it should be the case that FFI works 
>> properly.
>> 
>
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