GHC ARM64 calling convention

[Luke Iannini]

(oh, and on the topic of Useful Work I've done but haven't had time to box
up and ship, I backported the relevant ARM64 patches to GHC 7.8 here, in
case it's useful to anyone: https://github.com/lukexi/ghc-7.8-arm64 )

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Erik!
>
> Really glad you found it.
>
> I did actually submit it to the LLVM team a couple months ago; the
> relevant email from Tim Northover is here:
>
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20141103/243180.html
>
> He had a few small questions/requests and I've just been too pulled under
> by other projects to address them. If you want to give it the last nudge
> into glory I'd be thrilled : )
>
> Cheers
> Luke
>
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs at mega-nerd.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Luke,
>>
>> I found your llvm git tree which contains a patch [0] implementing the
>> GHC calling convention for GHC. I also notice that:
>>
>> a) It has not been submitted upstream.
>> b) It can be cherry picked and applied on top of current llvm HEAD.
>> c) It can be applied to the llvm 3.5 tree
>>
>> and most importantly of all
>>
>> d) It actually works.
>>
>> With this patch applied to the llvm 3.5 tree, I was able to build an
>> x86_64-linux to aarch64-linux cross-compiler which was able to build
>> a simple "hello world" program that actually ran correctly.
>>
>> Are you in the process of trying to get this patch into LLVM? Do you need
>> any help?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Erik
>>
>> [0]
>> https://github.com/lukexi/llvm/commit/2d351c3d095e2fe42bc287947404d884841a1d01
>> --
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>> Erik de Castro Lopo
>> http://www.mega-nerd.com/
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