[Glasgow-haskell-bugs] Re: PPC port of ghc.

[David Brown]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:04:09AM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > I noticed that GHC mentions a powerpc AIX port.  I was 
> > wondering what the
> > difficulty would be in porting GHC to Linux-PPC.
> 
> Probably not too hard.  The PPC code is still there, but hasn't been tested
> for a while (AFAIK, ghc 4.xx has never compiled on a PPC).  You may need to
> extract some bits from ghc 3.xx's runtime system.
> 
> We'll certainly help out where possible, but I don't think any of us here
> knows the PPC arch very well...

So, is it best to start out with the .hc files, even though they say they
are for x86?  I wasn't quite sure why an architecture was specified for the
.hc files?

Thanks,
Dave Brown