[erlang-questions] Using the half-word emulator with the erlang-solutions ubuntu package

pablo platt pablo.platt@REDACTED
Wed Apr 10 21:02:48 CEST 2013


Is it possible to add a 64bit with half-word enabled and HiPE disabled
package in addition to the 32bit and 64bit packages?

Is there a chance HiPE and half-word will work together in a future release?

Thank you for the packages.
They are extremely helpful.


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Konrad Gądek <
konrad.gadek@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As far as I'm aware, we don't have half-word emulator enabled in our
> packages, so this seems like an erroneous statement on ESL website -- I'll
> investigate it more tomorrow.
>
> Both disabling HiPE and enabling half-word emulator are done while
> building packages. Some more info:
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/1185490/547223
>
> /Konrad Gądek
>
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> From: "pablo platt" <pablo.platt@REDACTED>
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:59:07 PM
> Subject: [erlang-questions] Using the half-word emulator with the
> erlang-solutions ubuntu package
>
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>
> Hi,
>
> The page on the erlang-solutions website says that the packages support
> the half-word emulator:
> https://www.erlang-solutions.com/downloads
> "These have included HiPE enabled, 32 and 64 bit configurations, alongside
> the half-word emulator"
>
> I see [hipe] when starting the shell so half-word is probably not enabled.
> I'm not using hipe so there is no problem disabling it.
>
> Do I need to set a flag when installing the deb package?
> Do I need to use a flag when starting erlang or creating a release with
> rebar in the vm.args?
>
>
> Are there reasons not to use half-word besides the 4GB process memory
> limit?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
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