any successfull ghc registerised builds on arm?

[Nathan Hüsken]

On 01/24/2013 05:04 PM, Karel Gardas wrote:
> On 01/24/13 04:50 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>> Somebody claiming to be Nathan Hüsken wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2013 04:28 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>>>>>> Do you think it is specifically the 3.2 that made it work?
>>>>> Yes. With llvm version 3.1 I was only able to get an unregisterised
>>>>> build to work.
>>>> <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/7621/unregistered-arm-llvm-hack.patch>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ?
>>>
>>> Not exactly, see the patch here:
>>> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-January/000118.html
>>> and the changes to compiler/llvmGen/LlvmCodeGen/Ppr.hs
>>
>> Oh, man, the fact that I don't have that setting for QNX is probably not
>> doing me any favours...
> 
> IIRC it's more about optimization, i.e. proper data type alignment.
> 
>> How the heck am I supposed to figure out what that string should be? :(
> 
> Described here: http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#data-layout -- for
> LLVM 3.3. General rule, I would start with what Linux requires and check
> from that.
> 
>> That said... how did you get an unregisterised build to work with an
>> LLVM backend? Everything I've seen in the code implied that the moment
>> you are unregisteried, it uses via-C... Which is what my above patch is
>> primarily about.
> 
> IMHO Nathan is using registerised build. Nathan correct me please if I'm
> wrong as I'd like to also give your Android work a try in the future
> (being Android user myself...)

Yes, that is correct. registerised with llvm 3.2.