[Haskell-cafe] GHC core packages: same core?

[Max Bolingbroke]

Dimitry,

I *believe* ext-core will match that document, but I'm not sure of the
exact status. Tim Chevalier has done a lot of great work maintaining
the external core stuff and I think he is actively using the extcore
library, so *that* should almost certainly match GHC's output.

It's great to hear that you are interested in writing an alternative
backend! I think LHC is also using ext-core to build a backend, so
this seems like a viable approach.

All the best,
Max

2009/10/13 Dimitry Golubovsky <golubovsky at gmail.com>:
> Max,
>
> Thanks for the explanation. So, the extcore library is expected to
> match the spec in
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.4/html/ext-core/core.pdf and the
> core itself can be produced with -fext-core, correct? I think it might
> be interesting for people working on alternative backends (inlcuding
> myself).
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Max Bolingbroke
> <batterseapower at hotmail.com> wrote:
> [skip]
>>
>> extcore is a library that parses "external" Core, which is an
>> alternative format intended to be stable and hence a suitable target
>> for consumption by non-GHC tooling. You can have GHC output external
>> core instead of machine code / C. I don't believe this is widely used
>> yet.
>
> --
> Dimitry Golubovsky
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