[Haskell-cafe] Xcode 5 support for GHC iOS

[Karel Gardas]

Carter is right here, you will also need to hack LLVM to add support for 
GHC calling convention and you will also need to hack GHC's RTS to add a 
glue in between Haskell and C world on ARM64.

Cheers,
Karel

On 10/18/13 09:17 AM, Luke Iannini wrote:
> Yeah, probably a data layout in compiler/llvmGen/LlvmCodeGen/Ppr.hs and
> entries in compiler/utils/Platform.hs? Shouldn't be too bad I think.
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Carter Schonwald
> <carter.schonwald at gmail.com <mailto:carter.schonwald at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     don't we need to add an ARM64 ABI to ghc/llvm? or is that a nonissue?
>
>
>     On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lukexipd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Dominick!
>
>         Yes, this should work swimmingly on the 5S in 32bit mode.
>
>         We'll have to wait for Apple to merge their Arm64 patches [1]
>         before we can add full 64-bit support (I can do the 64bit
>         simulator right now though : )). (though I just saw this! [2])
>
>         Cheers
>         Luke
>
>         [1]
>         http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-September/065480.html
>         [2]
>         http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-September/065913.html
>
>
>         On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Dominick Samperi
>         <djsamperi at gmail.com <mailto:djsamperi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Will this work with the new iPhone 5 S (64 bit ARM)? I
>             assume that
>             it will work by running in 32 bit mode (requiring both 64
>             and 32 bit
>             libs to be loaded), but I'm not sure...
>
>             Thanks,
>             Dominick
>
>
>             On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Luke Iannini
>             <lukexipd at gmail.com <mailto:lukexipd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 Hi all,
>
>                 Just wanted to let you know I've finished updating GHC
>                 iOS to support Xcode 5. The new scripts are at
>                 https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts/tree/xcode5
>                 and you'll find updated instructions at
>                 http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompiling/iOS
>                 .
>
>                 Please let me know if you have any trouble!
>                 Cheers
>                 Luke
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