simonmar:
Things aren't so easy with alpha as gcc rejects the -mieee flag when GHC calls gcc for -cpp'ing. I fear a nasty hacky wrapper may be in order.
Is this when running gcc on the Alpha, or on the bootstrapping host?
alpha-dec-osf3 bootstrapped quite cleanly today. Using the right config.h makes a big difference ;) It isn't working yet though. I had to comment out/hack various decls in the rts on the alpha, which let the compile go through. The GHC that got built seems to loop when invoked. Probably an MBlock thing, I haven't looked into it yet. Anyway, I assume Ian was talking about the bootstrapped GHC on the target rejecting -mieee when being used to compile a full GHC. I didn't get that far, but I had no problems with -mieee on the host, or with .hc file-booting gcc. -- Don