On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:05:18AM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote: > > > I didn't even know that there was an arm native port for ocaml... > > > > Don't read the ocaml README file often, do you. Support was there > > since a long time ago, since before they dropped m68k i think. > > Correct. The ARM port was done at the end of 1998. > > > > Well, my first guess would be that there is ome limitation in the arm > > > architecture on the size of immediately loaded constants. Since large > > > integer constants are only generated when compiling polymorphic variants > > > that would explain why the problem only appears with labltk. > > This is roughly what's happening. However, the constant in question > doesn't come from polymorphic variants, it's just a stack frame size > (1180) that cannot be expressed as an ARM immediate. > > I'll try to fix this, however I no longer have access to an ARM machine > (e.g. Netwinder) to test the ARM code generator. If anyone wants to > do beta-testing, just drop me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) a line.
I have access to an arm box, medusa.armlinux.org, but maybe, if it would be ok for you, i could see if the arm porter guys could provide you a login there, don't know if they would but i can ask. Friendly, Sven Luther
