On 2019-09-12, at 7:02 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
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> PPC is pretty much out, I think, because the llvm backend that haskell uses
> can't produce quality PPC code...
Actually -- that is not correct.
I was under the impression that ghc used llvm as it's sole code generator based
on our
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 04:02, Ken Cunningham
wrote:
> On 2019-09-12, at 7:51 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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> Cool!
>
> Doesn't it work if you simply use this working ghc-bootstrap to build version
> 8?
> Or is Haskell too picky about what version of compiler you require to
> build something
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Ken Cunningham wrote:
On 2019-09-12, at 7:02 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
ghc is only C code.
Well, C code + haskell of course.
Not c++ . It's primarily the c++ exception handling Darwin ABI issue
with PPC llvm that limits releasing clang-5+ for PPC to the wild.
At
On 2019-09-12, at 7:02 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> ghc is only C code.
Well, C code + haskell of course.
Not c++ . It's primarily the c++ exception handling Darwin ABI issue with PPC
llvm that limits releasing clang-5+ for PPC to the wild.
Ken
On 2019-09-12, at 7:51 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>
> Cool!
>
> Doesn't it work if you simply use this working ghc-bootstrap to build version
> 8?
> Or is Haskell too picky about what version of compiler you require to
> build something newer, and you can only go forward one tiny step at a
>
