
On 04 March 2005 14:04, John Goerzen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:38:47AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
Even if you're not running Debian, there are tools available to convert a .deb to a RPM or tgz package. Or, you can easily unpack a deb using only ar(1) and tar(1).
My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too long before we have a registerised port of GHC, and possibly a native code generator...
<burns> excellent </burns>
Don't hold your breath, I have some bad news. It seems that gcc is still generating incorrect code for register variables (or maybe it's broken again?). I don't know if I can work around it yet. We'll see. Cheers, Simon

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:57:04PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
On 04 March 2005 14:04, John Goerzen wrote:
My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too long before we have a registerised port of GHC, and possibly a native code generator...
<burns> excellent </burns>
Don't hold your breath, I have some bad news. It seems that gcc is still generating incorrect code for register variables (or maybe it's broken again?).
Which version of gcc?

On 4-Mar-05, at 11:57 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
Don't hold your breath, I have some bad news. It seems that gcc is still generating incorrect code for register variables (or maybe it's broken again?).
So maybe this will be the first NCG-only port of GHC :-). Death to the Mangler! Cheers, Wolfgang
participants (3)
-
John Goerzen
-
Simon Marlow
-
Wolfgang Thaller