[Haskell-cafe] Compilers written in Haskell that generate assembly

[Carter Schonwald]

I do genuinely think it’s actually a great piece of code to shamelessly
copy out and use for your own needs.  It doesn’t even really dictate any
RTS assumptions or anything. By and large ;)

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:55 PM Sebastiaan Joosten <
sjcjoosten+haskell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not something I've worked on (my answer to your original question is 'no I
> haven't'), but GHC has a compiler from 'CMM' to various assemblies written
> in Haskell
> Code at:
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/blob/master/compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/
>
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/blob/master/compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/X86/CodeGen.hs
>
> (I used to think that LLVM was the last step in GHC. I don't know when or
> how I ever got that idea. Last year I learned that it only uses LLVM if you
> tell it to and it bypasses it completely with the default `-fasm' option
> <https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.10.2/docs/html/users_guide/codegens.html>. In
> any case, my own earlier misconception is why I felt the need to point out
> what is perhaps obvious to most.)
>
>
> Sebastiaan
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:09 PM Vanessa McHale <vamchale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That I stumbled across! I like it, though I've put off learning about
>> assemblers...
>>
>> On 12/14/20 2:05 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, 14 Dec 2020, Vanessa McHale wrote:
>> >
>> >> Have any of you written compilers or backends that generate assembly?
>> >> Lots of projects seem to "end" at LLVM.
>> >
>> > I don't know of compiler backends, but I know of an x86 machine code
>> > generator:
>> >    https://hackage.haskell.org/package/harpy
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