June 2009 - jhc - Haskell.org

what to work on next?
by John Meacham 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

I figured I'd ask all of you, what do you think the most important thing to work on in jhc right now is? I hit a major milestone by being able to compile a whole host of packages unchanged. Jhc alreadly works admirably as a cross compiler and generates pretty speedy code. It would be very easy for me to get lost in coming up with new, wacky optimizations. So, what do you want to see before that happens? John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/

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darcs patch: finally remove the ambiguity between the pointer to a ...
by John Meacham 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Mon Jun 29 03:33:37 PDT 2009 John Meacham <john(a)repetae.net> * finally remove the ambiguity between the pointer to a node and an indirect node, make the difference explicit in the grin type.

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darcs patch: start adding support for mark-sweep garb... (and 1 more)
by John Meacham 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Fri Jun 26 18:57:52 PDT 2009 John Meacham <john(a)repetae.net> * start adding support for mark-sweep garbage collector Sun Jun 28 01:42:50 PDT 2009 John Meacham <john(a)repetae.net> * get rid of some warnings

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darcs patch: small fixes for dist and rpm build (and 1 more)
by John Meacham 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Tue Jun 23 07:17:30 PDT 2009 John Meacham <john(a)repetae.net> * small fixes for dist and rpm build Tue Jun 23 07:17:51 PDT 2009 John Meacham <john(a)repetae.net> tagged 0.6.1

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Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.6.1
by John Meacham 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:59:38AM +0200, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > One question that is not clear in the documentation:Is JHC just a Haskell 98 > compiler? Has some extensions? It is mainly a haskell 98 compiler, but does have several extensions. However, not all of them correspond to GHC extensions and it is missing some notable ones such as MPTCs, but has some other interesting ones such as first class existential types. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/

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ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.6.1
by John Meacham 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Hi, this is to announce the release of jhc 0.6.1. The jhc homepage with distribution information is at http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/ The main new feature in this release is a much simplified cross-compilation mechanism. While cross-compilation was always possible with jhc, it used to involve manually copying the C file and calling gcc with the right options on it, now this is taken care of by jhc. A (popular) example would be setting up an iPhone cross compilation target. For instance with the SDK setup I have, I would simply add the following to a file ~/.jhc/targets.ini [iphone] cc=arm-apple-darwin cflags+=-I/usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/include merge=le32 then you can compile iphone binaries with ; jhc --cross -miphone HelloWorld.hs the targets mechanism is extensible at run-time and I have included native unix, win32, osx-intel and osx-powerpc targets. But certainly many more interesting ones are possible. Some I have tested have been a nokia N770 as a target and an atheros MIPS based router running dd-wrt. There is more information on cross compilation in the jhc manual at http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/manual.html#crosscompilation jhc is also now available in the repetae yum repository which you can get at via ; rpm -i http://repetae.net/yum/repetae-repo-1.0-3.noarch.rpm ; yum install jhc Enjoy! John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/

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darcs patch: automake/autoconf default to autodetecting base-4 and ...
by coreyoconnor＠gmail.com 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Mon Jun 22 20:04:11 PDT 2009 coreyoconnor(a)gmail.com * automake/autoconf default to autodetecting base-4 and using that if detected This patch changes configure to autodetect the base-4 package and modifies the PACKAGES makefile variable to include base-4 (along with syb) if base-4 is detected. This also adds --enable-base-4 and --disable-base-4 options to configure. Detection of base 4 package can be improved.

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darcs patch: automatically detect packages needed for ghc-6.8 and g...
by John Meacham 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Mon Jun 22 20:03:04 PDT 2009 John Meacham <john(a)repetae.net> * automatically detect packages needed for ghc-6.8 and ghc-6.10 compatibility

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darcs patch: Explicitly use base-4 and syb package. (GHC 6.10 only?)
by coreyoconnor＠gmail.com 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Sun Jun 21 19:28:35 PDT 2009 coreyoconnor(a)gmail.com * Explicitly use base-4 and syb package. (GHC 6.10 only?) When compiling using GHC 6.10 the base-4 and syb packages must be added. I think this needs to be dependent on the version of GHC used?

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darcs patch: add cross compilation documentation to the jhc manual
by John Meacham 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Mon Jun 22 18:52:46 PDT 2009 John Meacham <john(a)repetae.net> * add cross compilation documentation to the jhc manual

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