ghc -C in 7.4.1

[Simon Marlow]

On 05/02/2012 18:06, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:11, Serge D. Mechveliani <mechvel at botik.ru
> <mailto:mechvel at botik.ru>> wrote:
>
>     I needed to look into the C code made by     ghc-7.4.1
>
>
> GHC doesn't write C source any more.
>
>         Warning: The -fvia-C flag does nothing; it will be removed in
>     a future GHC release
>
>
> which is what this is telling you
>
>     ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
>       (GHC version 7.4.1 for i386-unknown-linux):
>       pipeLoop: at phase As but I wanted to stop at phase HCc
>
>
> and this appears to be a symptom of it not having been completely
> removed; the phase it wants to stop at no longer exists so it's getting
> caught after the fact. "Oops"

Thanks, I'll get this fixed.

Cheers,
	Simon




>     2. How to see this C code? What GHC version shows it?
>
>
> ghc6.x supported -fvia-C, ghc7.x does not.  Modern ghc uses a more
> efficient native code generator instead of going through C.
>
> Why is the purported C code supposed to be useful?
>
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