Whatever happened to the JVM backend for GHC? That might actually be a relatively straightforward solution to the whole "interface to Java" problem.
liamoc:
> On 19 April 2010 05:29, Don Stewart <dons@galois.com> wrote:More work also in that you need to port the runtime system to Java...
> > That's great info -- we do have an unregisterised ARM port of GHC in
> > Debian, iirc. (And the LLVM backend can generate ARM code too)
>
>
> Sounds good. With regards to LLVM, what dependencies does LLVM ARM
> code have? Android has gnu libraries not llvm, i don't know if that is
> okay.
>
> A superior approach would be to compile haskell to Java or Dalvik
> bytecode (or even JVM bytecode if it doesn't use any JIT features;
> then we can compile that to dalvik bytecode), but this is obviously
> more work if we already have an ARM port.
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