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What's "advantage of gcc-specific features"?

Yu-Hui Liu
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        Xavier Leroy

Date:	-- (:)
From:	John Carr <jfc@M...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] What's "advantage of gcc-specific features"?


> BTW, John Carr, from MIT, is maintaining a port of
> native OCaml compiler to Sparc V9 architecture
> (http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/) and he is working on Solaris system. As far
> as I know, his patches have been contributed back to OCaml official
> tree. So I would say that the Solaris is pretty well supported and
> performance should be quite acceptable.

The OCaml maintainers do not have a 64 bit SPARC system to test
on and can not take over my port.