I hope that the LLVM folks would reject outright any proposal to change
#4213: LLVM: Add support for TNTC to LLVM compiler suite -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: dterei | Owner: dterei Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: 7.6.2 Component: Compiler (LLVM) | Version: 6.13 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment (by altaic): Replying to [comment:24 bgamari]: the semantics of an already released feature in a non-compatible way. An already released feature which is likely to have yet to be used in the wild.
Especially when there is nothing wrong with the existing semantics.
I pointed out two shortcomings of the current semantics already. Even with the proposed symbol offsets, the prefix data must start with a target- dependent frontend-constructed instruction, which is subsequently not used. I.e. it requires carefully constructed garbage bytes. To me, that sounds kind of... not good. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4213#comment:30 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler