Re: Quick try at building 64-bit on OSX 10.8.3

2013-05-25 Thread Alexander Burger
HI Jorge, > Well, x64 sucks, no surprise here, but not as much as x86. Perhaps a > good strategy here would be to use one of the C calling registers (%r9 > for instance) as a preloaded NIL. Restoring that value after calling C Surely %r9 could be freed for general purposes. I don't remember if th

Re: Quick try at building 64-bit on OSX 10.8.3

2013-05-25 Thread Jorge Acereda MaciĆ”
On May 25, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Alexander Burger wrote: > HI Jorge, > >> Well, x64 sucks, no surprise here, but not as much as x86. Perhaps a >> good strategy here would be to use one of the C calling registers (%r9 >> for instance) as a preloaded NIL. Restoring that value after calling C > > Sur