On Dec 9, 2011, at 22:22 , Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 03:05:43PM +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>> Hm, I'm not sure. It's really easy to generate LLVM code for OCaml
>> in general, the problem is getting things to interact with legacy
>> OCaml code, with exception handling being one of the most important
>> issue.
> 
> As Edwin said, I don't think interaction with existing ocamlopt-
> compiled code is that important.  Debian and Fedora routinely
> "recompile the world".  What is more important is compatibility with C
> extensions.  How difficult is just C extension compatibility?  Or
> something that was mostly compatible but needed a few changes to C
> extensions?

It should work in general.

> Rich.

Benedikt

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