4 Sep
2003
4 Sep
'03
9:33 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:43:44AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
In light of this, I might amend the instructions to recommend using hc-build even for an unregisterised bootstrap, because
copying across
the .hi files isn't guaranteed to work when cross-compiling (I'm not certain that the .hi format is platform-independent enough).
Hmmm, I'm working with a slightly adapted hc-build - perhaps I should resync myself. I am curious what you mean by "platform-independent enough" though - how does it differ? It seems to work in practise for 32-bit arches at least.
There's at least one problem I know about: an Int will take up 8 bytes in a .hi file on a 64-bit arch. I don't think there are any endianness issues, though. Cheers, Simon