Re: Better X87

I believe that comment goes even further back - it was probably Julian Seward who worked on the x86 code generator around 1999, if I recall correctly. ​ ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-d

Re: Better X87

I actually think we should either remove x87 support, or make it not the default and make it more cleanly factored out from the rest of x86 code gen Improving x87 as a getting feet wet in a focused way sounds like a great low risk way. I think we should change to having code gen on x86-32 default

Re: Better X87

OK, makes sense, thanks. On 10/09/2016 02:14 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: Hi Thomas! Thomas Jakway writes: I was looking through compiler/nativeGen/X86/Instr.hs and it's pretty hard not to notice the (hilarious) diatribe

Re: Better X87

Hi Thomas! Thomas Jakway writes: > I was looking through compiler/nativeGen/X86/Instr.hs > > and it's pretty hard not to notice the (hilarious) diatribe about the > horror that is x87. > Reading these notes is one o

Better X87

I was looking through compiler/nativeGen/X86/Instr.hs and it's pretty hard not to notice the (hilarious) diatribe about the horror that is x87. git log -p says this was apparently written in 2009 by ben.lippme...@anu