Weird Activation Records (Fixed!)

Sigbjorn Finne sof at galois.com
Wed Mar 6 13:12:37 EST 2002


[moved to glasgow-haskell-bugs]

"Wolfgang Thaller" <wolfgang.thaller at gmx.net> writes:
>
 ...
>
> Due too my lack of Perl knowledge, I didn't yet manage to remove the 
> jumps from the slow to the fast entry points, and a function called 
> __DISCARD__ must be present for linking (it's never called, though).
> Should the old PowerPC code in the mangler be kept there? It assumes 
> a slightly different assembler dialect and a completely different 
> linker, and as it just asks for $TargetPlatform =~ /^powerpc|rs6000/, 
> it keeps getting in the way...

The uses of 'powerpc' refer to an AIX port that was done quite a while ago,
so if it's conflicting with your mods, just substitute 'powerpc' for
'powerpc-ibm-aix'

--sigbjorn





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