Could it be done with CPP macros perhaps, instead of a separate code
generator program? If the boilerplate is fairly regular and only
requires placeholder-substitution, identifier concatenation and
stringification, it could be an option. Just a thought.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Geoffrey Mainland
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> There is a huge amount of boilerplate involved in adding a full
> complement of vector primops to GHC. I would like to reduce this
> boilerplate by programmatically generating the vector primops. My plan
> is to add utils/genvecprimops and #include its output into
> primops.txt.pp.
>
> Does this sound reasonable? Any objections? While I'm at it, is there
> any related cleanup I could undertake?
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff
>
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