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[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

+1 for a lighting talk on that! (You can tell the organisers that ;)

Also, we should make sure to meet and talk about cross-compilation and GHC for iOS :)

Manuel

> Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> not sure if this is noteworthy:
> 
> The following is or will hopefully make(*) it
> into 8.4 as well
> 
> - (1) iserv-remote (run iserv on a remote device over the network)
> - (2) arm / aarch64 linker for elf and mach-o
> - (3*) `-staticlib` support for Linux and BSD derivatives (was darwin only): 
> - (4*) `-llvmng` new llvm bitcode code gen
> - (5*) refactored llvm pipeline
> 
> This essentially is all part of making GHC natively
> support cross compiling (including support for Template Haskell) to android/iOS/RaspberryPi.
> 
> I hope to give a lighting talk around those, if I get a slot.
> 
> Cheers,
>  Moritz
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 4 Sep 2017, at 8:01 AM, Iavor Diatchki <iavor.diatchki at gmail.com <mailto:iavor.diatchki at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Trevor Elliott and I have been slowly working on implementing Simon M's  "Mutable Constructor Fields" proposal [1].
>> 
>> The current state of the code is here:
>> https://github.com/yav/ghc/tree/wip/mutable-fields <https://github.com/yav/ghc/tree/wip/mutable-fields>
>> 
>> I am not sure if this would be ready in time for 8.4 as I don't know what the time-line looks like, and also, the actual proposal is still in the process of being reviewed by the GHC committee.
>> 
>> -Iavor 
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/simonmar/ghc-proposals/blob/mutable-fields/proposals/0000-mutable-fields.rst <https://github.com/simonmar/ghc-proposals/blob/mutable-fields/proposals/0000-mutable-fields.rst>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:15 PM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org <mailto:ghc-devs at haskell.org>> wrote:
>> Ben, Simon, and ghc-devs
>> 
>> I have to write slides for the GHC status talk in the Haskell Implementor’s meeting.
>> 
>> Usually we have
>> 
>> Current status (current release)
>> What’s cooking for the next release
>> GHC community comments
>> As background we have
>> 
>> Our Apr 17 status page <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/Apr17>
>> Our 8.2 release notes <https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.2.1-notes.html>
>> Our 8.4 status page <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-8.4.1>
>> What would you put under (1-3)?  Anything you’d like to see highlighted?
>> 
>> 
>> Simon
>> 
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