[cvs-nhc98] Status of nhc98 on 64bit platforms

[Sven Panne]

Just out of curiosity, I've just tried to build and install nhc98 from the 
darcs repo on an x86_64 Linux platform (vanilla "./configure && make", a 
rather recent GHC from darcs is in the PATH). This resulted in thousands of 
warnings and errors from GCC like:

   warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
   error: initializer element is not constant

The resulting nhc98 is unusable, yielding dozens of errors from the linker for 
a "Hello, world!" program.

So what is the current status on 64bit platforms? Are the problems fixable 
within a reasonable timeframe? If yes, some hints where to look for bugs 
would be appreciated, perhaps I can have a try...

Cheers,
   S.