ghc and aarch64?

[Karel Gardas]

Hi David,

AArch64 is completely new architecture so it's not about extending 
current ARM support but rather write a new beside it -- at least as a 
prototype, if there is a lot of synergies you can merge both together 
later, but I don't see it having a high chance. Well the situation with 
AArch64 and ARM is very similar to situation with i386 and amd64 support 
so you can get an idea what's the difference (extended registers set, 
extended registers width, extended NEON (the least important detail 
indeed), different calling convention, etc.)

Cheers,
Karel

On 03/26/13 08:14 AM, David Terei wrote:
> I don't believe so.
>
> LLVM in head supports Arm64 so I imagine it wouldn't be too much work
> to extend our existing Arm support (also through LLVM) to work with
> Arm64. I'm not aware of any Arm64 hardware being available yet but
> someone could potentially start with a virtual image:
> http://www.linaro.org/engineering/armv8
>
> On 25 March 2013 19:33, Jens Petersen<juhp at community.haskell.org>  wrote:
>> I am curious if anyone has started or is planning to work on porting
>> GHC to the new ARM 64bit architecture AArch64 for Linux?
>>
>> Jens
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