[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

[Dan Mead]

does the haskell on llvm compiler support the ghc extentions?

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Anatoly Yakovenko <aeyakovenko at gmail.com>wrote:

> ghc llvm port would enable arm support as well.  i know there were
> some issues with llvm when this was discusses a couple of years ago.
> has anyone checked if that's the case?
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Braden Shepherdson
> <Braden.Shepherdson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Conrad Meyer wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 08:15:44 am Braden Shepherdson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dan Mead wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> has there been any movement on this topic? i'm also interested in
> >>>> haskell on arm
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> do you guys thing telling ghc to emit C and then compiling that for
> arm
> >>>> is a better route than
> >>>> getting direct compilation to work?
> >>>
> >>> If you look on the GHC-on-ARM page[1], you'll find my attempts to
> >>> bootstrap GHC 6.6 (the last version where cross-compiling GHC actually
> >>> worked) to ARM.
> >>>
> >>> The only success I had was in using jhc (not GHC) to generate portable
> >>> C, which cross-compiled and ran fine (on my Nokia N810). GHC's C
> >>> wouldn't compile out of the box, and I'm not sure what libraries or
> >>> other hackery is required to make it do so.
> >>>
> >>> Details of the failed cross-compilation and success with jhc are on the
> >>> wiki page[1].
> >>>
> >>> I'd love to have this working, but I have no time at all this term.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Braden Shepherdson
> >>> shepheb
> >>
> >> Have you considered trying to bootstrap ghc with jhc?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >
> > Unfortunately this is not possible. The Haskell code in GHC relies on
> some
> > GHC-only extensions. jhc can't compile GHC because it doesn't have those
> > extensions. jhc can't even compile itself, since it too relies on those
> > extensions.
> >
> >
> > Braden Shepherdson
> > shepheb
> >
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