inside the GHC code generator

Wolfgang Thaller wolfgang.thaller at gmx.net
Fri Feb 24 15:08:37 EST 2006


> Another shortcoming is that the native code generator in GHC isn't
> capable of dealing with backward jumps to labels (because GHC hasn't
> needed that so far).  But if you did C-- optimisation, you'd probably
> generate such jumps.  It'd be great to beef up the native code gen to
> handle that.

I'm already working on that. It's basically done, I think I only need  
to get around to one more session with the code for final cleanup.

(Just to avoid any duplication of effort).

Cheers,

Wolfgang



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