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[Ara Adkins]

I’m definitely interested in hearing more about cross compilation for iOS. Might actually make an idea I’ve had brewing into something feasible! 

_ara

> On 4 Sep 2017, at 11:16, Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak at justtesting.org> wrote:
> 
> +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> 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
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:15 PM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <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
>>>> Our 8.2 release notes
>>>> Our 8.4 status page
>>>> What would you put under (1-3)?  Anything you’d like to see highlighted?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Simon
>>>> 
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