On Jan 3, 2008 3:43 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> wrote:
This is an early release of Haskell bindings for the popular LLVM
compiler infrastructure project.

If you don't know what LLVM is, it's a wonderful toybox of compiler
components, from a complete toolchain supporting multiple architectures
through a set of well-defined APIs and IR formats that are designed for
building interesting software with.

The official LLVM home page is here:

 http://llvm.org/

The Haskell bindings are based on Gordon Henriksen's C bindings.  The C
bindings are almost untyped, but the Haskell bindings re-add type safety
to prevent runtime crashes and general badness.

Currently, the entire code generation system is implemented, with most
LLVM data types supported (notably absent are structs).  Also plugged in
is JIT support, so you can generate code at runtime from Haskell and run
it immediately.  I've attached an example.

Please join in the hacking fun!

 darcs get http://darcs.serpentine.com/llvm

If you want a source tarball, fetch it from here:

 http://darcs.serpentine.com/llvm/llvm-0.0.2.tar.gz

(Hackage can't host code that uses GHC 6.8.2's language extension names
yet.)

There's very light documentation at present, but it ought to be enough
to get you going.

       <b

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Maybe I am asking an uninformed n00b question but how come GHC has fvia-C and are also working on an asm backend. Is there any reason why they could not build off the work of LLVM (which supports various architectures) then ditch those two backends and call it a day?

--ryan