-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/10 11:12 , Simon Marlow wrote:
I bootstrapped GHC from the intermediate C files on a 640K PC around 1993 or so. I don't remember exactly, but I think it might have worked, for some small value of "work".
If you used the right build environment, the compiler would have arranged for overlays; the better ones even supported data overlays, but I imagine that would have wreaked utter havoc with the runtime (its thunks would have been wrapped in compiler-generated thunks that swapped the overlay space as needed). - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzcF7wACgkQIn7hlCsL25UdJACeNi0aPwQRAatUiBH1MDFQrttR jOcAnjrUA29p/lxqwv3N0WXDRvEO+DYW =+BuC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----