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<h1>RunningOnAMD64</h1>
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<p>MLton runs fine on the AMD64 (aka "x86-64" or "x64") architecture.</p>
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<p>When compiling for AMD64, MLton targets the 64-bit ABI.</p>
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<p>On AMD64, MLton supports native code generation (<code>-codegen native</code> or <code>-codegen amd64</code>).</p>
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<p>When compiling for AMD64, MLton uses <code>-align 8</code> by default.  Using
<code>-align 4</code> may be incompatible with optimized builds of the <a href="GMP">GMP</a>
library, which assume 8-byte alignment.  (See the thread at
<a href="http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-October/030674.html" class="bare">http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-October/030674.html</a> for more
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Last updated Thu Oct 21 15:53:06 2021 -0400 by Matthew Fluet.
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