Re: Removing/deprecating -fvia-c

2010-02-14 Thread Johan Tibell
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > Hi all, > > We are planning to remove the -fvia-c way of compiling code > (unregisterised compilers will continue to compile via C only, but > registerised compilers will only use the native code generator). > We'll probably deprecate -fvia-c

Re: Removing/deprecating -fvia-c

2010-02-14 Thread Daniel Peebles
I thought GHC's own codegen didn't do any instruction reordering for the pipeline. I guess that ends up not being much of an issue in practice? On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > igloo: > > > > Hi all, > > > > We are planning to remove the -fvia-c way of compiling code > > (u

Re: Removing/deprecating -fvia-c

2010-02-14 Thread Don Stewart
igloo: > > Hi all, > > We are planning to remove the -fvia-c way of compiling code > (unregisterised compilers will continue to compile via C only, but > registerised compilers will only use the native code generator). > We'll probably deprecate -fvia-c in the 6.14 branch, and remove it in > 6.16

Removing/deprecating -fvia-c

2010-02-14 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, We are planning to remove the -fvia-c way of compiling code (unregisterised compilers will continue to compile via C only, but registerised compilers will only use the native code generator). We'll probably deprecate -fvia-c in the 6.14 branch, and remove it in 6.16. Simon Marlow has rec

Re: buildbot status

2010-02-14 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:00:14PM +0100, Karel Gardas wrote: > > as per GHC wiki (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/BuildBot), its > buildbot should be accessible either on > http://darcs.haskell.org/buildbot or on http://darcs.haskell.org:8010. > The first one return 404 page not found an