I'm going by my rather poor memory for this. Frankly, I don't really care where the option sits, as long as I don't need a separate build of GHC to avoid LGPL. ________________________________________ From: Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 5:48 AM To: Elliot Cameron; GHC developers Cc: Herbert Valerio Riedel Subject: Re: Planning for the 7.12 release
Elliot Cameron <elliot.came...@covenanteyes.com> writes: > I can't seem to find the exact trac ticket, but the ability to swap > out "Integer" implementations at link time would be a huge relief on > Windows, which suffers from various problems with dynamic linking. I > believe it was originally slated for 7.12. Can someone find it? Here's > what I did find: > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes > > A related discussion: > https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/399 > > As it stands, we've been trying hard to find good ways to provide > custom GHC variants more easily to end users. > Hmm, interesting. I'm not sure how realistic it is to make this a link-time option, however, considering that we may inline bindings from whatever integer package we compile against into the user's program. Herbert, do you have any thoughts on this? Cheers, - Ben _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs