[GHC] #9735: Template Haskell for cross compilers (port from GHCJS)

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#9735: Template Haskell for cross compilers (port from GHCJS)
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       Reporter:  luite              |                   Owner:
           Type:  task               |                  Status:  new
       Priority:  normal             |               Milestone:  7.10.1
      Component:  Compiler           |                 Version:  7.8.3
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 GHCJS supports Template Haskell by running it outside the compiler's
 process, with a different implementation of the Quasi type class. This can
 be done for other cross compilers too, if GHC gets an option to serialize
 Template Haskell requests and pass them to an external process.

 Someone started the work on this, but I think he stopped. I still have a
 document with a step by step plan to build an iOS cross compiler, with
 pointers to the relevant GHC and GHCJS code.

 https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs/wiki/Porting-GHCJS-Template-Haskell-to-GHC

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