michaelw@repo ~/debian/ghc5/ghc5-5.04/build-stage1/ [225]% uname -a Linux repo 2.4.18 #11 Mon Jun 17 20:37:46 CEST 2002 sparc64 unknown michaelw@repo ~/debian/ghc5/ghc5-5.04/build-stage1/ [226]% echo 'module Main where main = putStrLn "Hello, World!"' > Main.hs michaelw@repo ~/debian/ghc5/ghc5-5.04/build-stage1/ [227]% ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace Main.hs /tmp/ghc27784.hc:53: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type michaelw@repo ~/debian/ghc5/ghc5-5.04/build-stage1/ [228]% ./a.out Hello, World! michaelw@repo ~/debian/ghc5/ghc5-5.04/build-stage1/ [229]%

WOOHOO!!! Impressive stuff, congrats Michael.

What works: * unregisterized compilation: I had to be a bit creative with the LOOKS_LIKE_GHC_INFO stuff (which is one fragile piece of sh^H^Hcode... ;)),

You'll be glad to know that all going according to plan, we'll be able to remove this dependency from the RTS before too long. We're planning some changes to the tail-call mechanism that means stack-walking will no longer need to be able to distinguish between code and data pointers.

* make bootstrapping work with uh... less hand-waving, praying/swearing in the general direction of Glasgow, etc. ;)

We're definitely interested in doing this. BTW, swearing at Glasgow won't get you very far, since we're in Cambridge :-p Cheers, Simon