Advice needed: programmatically generating primops?

[Gabor Greif]

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Cheers,

    Gabor

On 2/15/13, kudah <kudahkukarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>with -traditional concatenation is not available.
>
> #define RET(x) x
> #define CONCAT(x,y) RET(x)y
>
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:17:20 +0000 Geoffrey Mainland
> <mainland at apeiron.net> wrote:
>
>> That was what I wanted to do at first, but I don't think it's
>> possible.
>>
>> First of all, on Linux at least, we invoke the preprocessor with
>> -traditional, so concatenation is not available. That could be
>> changed.
>>
>> Without -traditional, CPP doesn't like the # characters in the names
>> of our primops. If you see how to get around that issue, please let
>> me know :)
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>> On 02/15/2013 11:08 AM, Gábor Lehel wrote:
>> > Could it be done with CPP macros perhaps, instead of a separate code
>> > generator program? If the boilerplate is fairly regular and only
>> > requires placeholder-substitution, identifier concatenation and
>> > stringification, it could be an option. Just a thought.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Geoffrey Mainland
>> > <mainland at apeiron.net> wrote:
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> There is a huge amount of boilerplate involved in adding a full
>> >> complement of vector primops to GHC. I would like to reduce this
>> >> boilerplate by programmatically generating the vector primops. My
>> >> plan is to add utils/genvecprimops and #include its output into
>> >> primops.txt.pp.
>> >>
>> >> Does this sound reasonable? Any objections? While I'm at it, is
>> >> there any related cleanup I could undertake?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Geoff
>> >>
>> >>
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