On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 03:12 -0500, Adam Jensen wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:57:44 +0100 (CET)
> [email protected] wrote:
> > mcode is the integrated code generator, which can be used instead
> > of the gcc backend. It is way faster and smaller, but generated
> > code is worse than gcc -O.
> > 
> 
> Does mcode generate bytecode for a virtual machine (managed runtime
> environment) or does it generate native code? I seem to recall mention
> of ghdl-mcode only running on i386. Is that correct (no x86_64)? Is it
> any i386 or does it require Linux-i386?

mcode generates native x86 (not x86-64) code, as a JIT compiler (the
resulting executable is run directly, not saved). An x86-64 port may be
possible ... with some work.

- Brian



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