[Haskell-cafe] unregisterised plan9 port

[David Leimbach]

I'd also love to see GHC on Plan 9.  I don't have a lot of time to
contribute to such an effort really though I do wish you well!

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:20 AM, * <midbra86 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> I am trying to get an unregisterised build of ghc 7.0.2 working and am
> having problems turning mangling off.
>
> When I build the compiler with
>
> GhcUnregisterized = YES
> GhcWithNativeCodeGen = NO
> SplitObjs          = NO
> BeConservative = YES
>
> The 'evil mangler' is still used.  When I disable it at the command line
> with -fno-asm-mangling the FB_ macro is still put into the
> generated C.
>
>
> I just want to turn everything related to this dreaded "evil mangler" off,
> and still produce working executables.
> Are there things that I could set in the build.mk file to do this, or is
> it more involved?
>
> I have read some things in the mailing list and the bug tracker that (to my
> ignorant and slightly confused ears)
> seem to suggest that this unregisterised is problematic or depreciated or
> something.
>
> If this is the case I would be perfectly happy using an older version of
> the compiler, and would be grateful if someone
> could point me to a specific older version number where this stuff builds
> with less hassel.  I don't care how out of date
> it is.
>
> In case you are wondering, I am attempting to get an unregisterised port of
> ghc working in plan9, an operating system that
> has yet to be blessed with a haskell implementation (hugs doesn't count :P)
>
> Plan 9 has a gcc port, an older one, but it should be fine.
>
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