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

[Anatoly Yakovenko]

i don't think haskell on llvm exists, so the answer would be no

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Dan Mead <d.w.mead at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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