[Haskell-cafe] External representation of GHC bytecode

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:27 AM, Sean Seefried <sean.seefried at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If the bytecode could be made
> to be platform independent -- and I know this would be a *lot* of work --
> then we'd have a pretty good solution for Template Haskell with cross
> compilers, wouldn't we?
>

I think you're missing the point a bit; such a setup would work for runghc,
but TH needs to be aware of both the host (in this case that'd be a
platform-independent VM bytecode) and the target (since it is generating
AST splices for a specific target). The latter is much harder than the
former.

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