Re: Labels for float instructions on alpha

Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:33:12 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.nhc.bugs
Organization	Dept of Computer Science, University of York
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Ian Lynagh <[email protected]> writes:

> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=nhc98&ver=1.14-9&arch=alpha&stamp=1044607122&file=log&as=raw

I believe the many warnings like:
    mutator.c:761: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
are of much greater significance than the undefined labels.  Isn't the
alpha a 64-bit machine?  If so, then it is not currently supported
by nhc98 at all.  The last time the nhc compiler supported the alpha
architecture was probably in 1997, when it still emitted assembly
language rather than compiling via C.

I'd like to get 64-bit code working again, but have (a) no time,
and (b) no test machine.  Wolfram Kahl <[email protected]>
did some preliminary investigation on porting to the alpha about nine
months ago, but I think he got stuck.

Regards,
    Malcolm