At Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:57:29 +1000, Jeremy Apthorp wrote:
Next year I'll be working on a project for my undergraduate computing course at UNSW that will involve getting GHC to target the Nintendo DS. It'll require cross-compilation, because the DS isn't powerful enough to actually run GHC (4M main ram and a 66MHz processor).
Cool! By cross-compilation, I assume you mean, a version of GHC which runs on x86, but generates ARM assembly? Another option might be to use a nintendo DS emulator which has been configured to support more RAM and CPU power ? A true cross-compiler would be nice though, because it will run much faster. GHC does have some support for cross-compilation, but in the current implementation, it is mostly (entirely?) there for bootstrapping. I have no idea how the ghc backend rewrite for 6.10 will affect this. Hope this helps, j.