compiler plugin pass order

[Ben Gamari]

Anton Antich <anton.antich at gmail.com> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> we started exploring Haskell-to-DotNet compiler in frames of a larger
> project and would like to clarify one issue: is it possible to control the
> order in the compilation pipeline in which the compiler plugins get called?
> Inserting .Net compilation via Plugin seems a cleaner way than using GHC
> API from scratch for a lot of reasons, but the challenge is as follows: we
> compile from STG but inside the plugin core2core passes have not been
> called yet, and without them some important optimizations are missing.
>
Just so we are all on the same page: Precisely what type of plugin are
you implementing?

If it's a Core plugin then you should be able install your plugin
anywhere in the list of CoreToDos given to the installCoreToDos
function.

Cheers,

- Ben

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