x86_64 port

[Simon Marlow]

On 04 March 2005 22:54, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

> simonmar:
>> On 04 March 2005 16:59, John Goerzen wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:57:04PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>>> On 04 March 2005 14:04, John Goerzen wrote:
>>>>>> My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too long before
>>>>>> we have a registerised port of GHC, and possibly a native code
>>>>>> generator...
>>>>> 
>>>>> <burns> excellent </burns>
>>>> 
>>>> Don't hold your breath, I have some bad news.  It seems that gcc is
>>>> still generating incorrect code for register variables (or maybe
>>>> it's broken again?).
>>> 
>>> Which version of gcc?
>> 
>> gcc (GCC) 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)
> 
> I note that the GCC 4.0 branch is now being stabilised -- maybe that's
> something to check.

They claim it works with 4.0.0.  Here's the bug I submitted:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20359

Cheers,
	Simon