x86_64 port

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

simonmar:
> On 04 March 2005 16:59, John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:57:04PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >> On 04 March 2005 14:04, John Goerzen wrote:
> >>>> My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too long before
> >>>> we have a registerised port of GHC, and possibly a native code
> >>>> generator...
> >>> 
> >>> <burns> excellent </burns>
> >> 
> >> Don't hold your breath, I have some bad news.  It seems that gcc is
> >> still generating incorrect code for register variables (or maybe it's
> >> broken again?).
> > 
> > Which version of gcc?
> 
> gcc (GCC) 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)

I note that the GCC 4.0 branch is now being stabilised -- maybe that's
something to check.

-- Don