[mercury-users] try_io on x86-64

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Ian MacLarty wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Michael Day <mikeday at yeslogic.com> wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>>> Which version of MacOS X?  I have successfully compiled and run
>>> programs that use try_io on 10.5 (Intel).  I've also tried a small
>>> program with try_io on 10.6 (with the 10.6 patch I posted to
>>> mercury-reviews which is not yet committed) and it seems to work fine.
>>
>> Definitely on MacOS X 10.4 PowerPC, not sure about Intel, need to check
>> again. Do you have an x86-64 system for testing?
>>
>
> With Linux yes, and that works fine.  The version of boehm that
> Mercury currently uses doesn't work on 64 bit Mac OS, so for Mac OS
> you've got to go 32 bit.  I've never tried Mercury on 10.4.

Mercury was working on 10.4/PPC -- for Mercury's purposes 10.4 wasn't
signficantly different from 10.3.

Julien.
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