Sébastien Carlier
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Sebastien Carlier [sebc@posse42.net] was at one time working on a MacOSX port, but I don't know how far he got.
I worked on the unregisterised (via-C) build of GHC. My patches solved most of the incompatibilities with Apple's version of GCC, and the problems with the memory layout of OS X, but was indeed incomplete (no implementation of createAdjustor). Recently my patches stopped working so I couldn't package a 5.02 release. (executables crash after a while, this is probably GC-related). I am currently studying the PowerPC instruction set (I need to write a native code generator for my own project), and I also had a look into GHC's Stix, but I don't know when I'll be able to start (time is the biggest problem).
Are your patches (I mean the old ones) public? Did you already check them into CVS? If others want to continue on the port, it would be easier to start from your patches instead of starting all over again, I guess. Cheers, Manuel