[Yhc] Backends & Bare Metal

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:41:28PM -0500, Creighton Hogg wrote:
> Hello,
> So I admit that I'm not really that familiar with how Yhc works yet, but I
> was wondering if anyone had ever tried/considered making the Yhc runtime
> work on bare metal?  It seems like this would just involve using a modified
> version of the BCKernel but everything else should be able to stay the same
> since the rest involves compiling to byte code?  I have no idea how hard
> that is, but it seems like it'd be almost more feasible than reworking
> h0p/House to work with more recent GHCs.

Indeed it would be simple.  The biggest issue would likely be that you
would need to write much of a C OS in order to load bytecode files; my
Ayhi design (unfortunately stalled ATM) avoids this issue by doing
bytecode loading in Haskell.

Stefan