ticket for adding ARM backend to NCG?

[Karel Gardas]

Guys,

I've been tinkering with ARM NCG idea for quite some time now, but 
honestly I've been always in doubts if it's the best way for GHC at all. 
I've thought that the plan was to kind of move out of NCG to LLVM based 
backends and I've though that although this plan may be kind of stuck 
now, it's still on the table.

Yes, I know that GHC is volunteering effort so if someone comes and asks 
for an ARM NCG implementation merge it'll be probably done in some time, 
but I'm not sure if it's what's the most welcome at the end.

Just some of my doubts about it...

I would really appreciate some authoritative word about the topic from 
more involved GHC developers... I mean especially about NCG future...

Thanks!
Karel

On 01/ 3/14 09:35 AM, Jens Petersen wrote:
> On 3 January 2014 03:10, Corey O'Connor <coreyoconnor at gmail.com
> <mailto:coreyoconnor at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     My interest is just to get involved somehow in the NCG. Starting a
>     new backend seemed reasonable only because I couldn't break
>     something that didn't exist. ;-)
>
>
> Well a big +1 from me for armv7 NCG.
>
>
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