This looks pretty exiting for LLVM IR-generation:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130909/188042.html
GHC 7.10 might generate LLVM IR including embedded tables without
resorting to linker tricks/postprocessing when targeting LLVM 3.4!
The relevant LLVM bug is
On 9/16/13, Carter Schonwald carter.schonw...@gmail.com wrote:
yup! its exciting.
we were talking about this a bit earlier today on #haskell-llvm, and it
sounds doable.
There were some concerns that folks had, but hopefully we can give the llvm
devs feedback about this before its finalized
May not be mandatory but it certainly just emits the values directly before
the prologue... I'm guessing this doesn't affect IR level optimizations but
likely breaks machine code optimizations without a relative jump to the
body in the prefix-data.
https://gist.github.com/NathanHowell/6589820
-n
