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Re: [Caml-list] Native compiler support for m68k?

Xavier Leroy
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  - Damien Doligez
    - Christophe Raffalli
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        Christophe Raffalli
      - Xavier Leroy
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- Richard Zidlicky

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From:	Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Native compiler support for m68k?

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 11:58 PM, Richard Zidlicky wrote:

> What could be the source of such indeterministic behaviour?

There is at least one source of nondeterminism in the compiler:
the generation of temporary file names.  And it can be influenced
by the contents of the /tmp directory, especially when a previous
compiler run has crashed and left its temporary files there...
There may be other sources of nondeterminism, but I can't think
of any off the top of my head.

> gc?

No, the GC is completely deterministic (thank God).

-- Damien

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