Native? What native?

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Sun, 24 Dec 2000 12:23:22 -0800 (PST)


> I'm completely confused about what the 20001130 version of MLton is doing.
> Using `-native true' definitely does different things than `-native false', but
> looking at the -v output it seems that both of them produce a C file.  I would
> have been sure that the `-native true' would have produced a .s file.  What is
> going on here?

Both do produce a C file.  The C file for the -native true case is just for the
initialization of constants and the main call.  The -native true should also
produce a (collection of) .s files.