On Nov 2, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Tristan Gingold <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/11/14 16:01, Paul Koning wrote: >> >> On Nov 2, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Tristan Gingold <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 02/11/14 11:51, Brian Drummond wrote:> Probably Simon Wright. He put it >>> on Sourceforge at >>>> >>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_GCC%20Mac%20OS% >>>> 20X/4.9.1/ >>> >>> Yes, that's the URL. >>> >>>> Tn any case, isn't the mcode version expected to fail on amd64? It's a >>>> JIT compiler for x686 (32-bit). >>> >>> But you can build the gcc version. >>> >>>> David K and I looked at the possibility of building a 64-bit version and >>>> gave up. >>> >>> That's a lot of work; and not very interesting as you can use llvm in jit >>> mode now. >> >> I have a 64 bit GCC based GNAT on my Mac OS 10.9 machine. And yes, that >> actually is interesting; it allows me to link in non-VHDL modules to do >> stuff. > > Maybe I misunderstood Brian. With a 64 bit GNAT on Mac, you can build ghdl > using gcc as back-end; but you cannot build mcode version of ghdl. > > I think that porting mcode for amd64 isn't very interesting, better to > use llvm instead. I misunderstood your point. Yes, that makes sense, unless there is reason to believe that mcode in 64 bit mode would be substantially faster. paul _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
