Re: Is -fvia-C still needed?

I understood the OP's closing remark -- "...why ghc still needs gcc (at least on Windows)?" -- as a suggestion that GHC on Windows would be better served by not bundling GCC. However, I'm probably not the only one who's written a little C to go along with a lot of Haskell -- and it's nice that the default Windows distribution supports that code (unlike some other type-inferring, statically typed, strongly typed languages, which ship with a little hole to fill in for the C compiler). -- _jsn