#13101: Enable GHC to be loaded into GHCi -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- It would be very helpful for development to be able to load GHC itself into GHCi. In principle this shouldn't be so hard since GHC is just another Haskell program. However, in practice there are a number of modules which use unboxed tuples, which the interpreter does not support. However, it should be possible to the convince GHC to use object code for just these modules and interpret the rest. I have a few attempts at this here (https://gist.github.com/bgamari/bd53e4fd6f3323599387ffc7b11d1a1e). See the following related mailing list threads, * https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2017-January/013545.html * https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-March/011555.html -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13101 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler