Re: ocaml and the new arm ABI (EABI)

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:10:42AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> > There exists a rapidly maturing Debian ARM EABI port with about 13000
> > packages built at this moment, and one of the packages that doesn't
> > build/work is ocaml.  I would fix it up, if only the code generator
> > wasn't written in ocaml as well.
> > 
> > Can anyone on this mailing list provide assistance in fixing this up?
>
> Hi Lennert,

Hi Julien,

Thanks for your quick response!


> honestly I'm not sure it's worthwhile to spend too much time fixing this
> up.  ocamlopt (the ocaml native compiler) is already basically
> unsupported upstream (there are some bugs in the asm code generation
> currently, see for example http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3952
> and related reports), and we probably can live with a bytecode compiler
> on arm, as is the case on mipsen, m68k and s390.

OK, I'll do that, then.


thanks again,
Lennert