#2965: GHC on OS X does not compile 64-bit
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Reporter: Axman6 | Owner: thoughtpolice
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.12 branch
Component: Compiler | Version:
Keywords: 64bit | Difficulty: Unknown
Os: MacOS X | Testcase:
Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Failure: Installing GHC failed
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Comment(by simonmar):
Replying to [comment:54 ChrisKuklewicz]:
> Will the arrival of the LLVM backend make OS X 64-bit code generation
easier? Could this be used to bootstrap some of the runtime?
Probably not, I expect our x86-64 code generator should work well enough.
The OSX ABI is a little different from Linux in that IIRC -fPIC is the
default, but our code generator already handles this I believe.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2965#comment:55>
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