[MLton] MLton on intel mac
Florian Weimer
fw at deneb.enyo.de
Tue Sep 19 11:31:11 PDT 2006
* Matthew Fluet:
>> The changes I made will also align all C calls on x86 to 16 byte
>> bounds. I don't know enough about the frame layout within SML code
>> to try this, but it doesn't seem to be necessary.
>
> It should be fairly easy to set things up to only do alignment to 16
> byte boundaries on the MacOS.
Technically, it's needed on other systems as well. I believe
GNU/Linux adopted a modified psABI which requires 16-byte alignment as
well. It's less apparent on these platforms because there is little
SSE library code.
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