My mistake. They're planning to move away from the gcc backend, and I
thought I had read C-- would eventually go away given it's not really
being actively developed anymore, but I can't seem to find where I got
that idea. I'd wager their C-- support will depend on how well LLVM
adapts to support their needs in the near future, since maintaining
native backends is a lot of work.

Sandro

On 10/03/2010 11:43 PM, Donnie Jones wrote:
> Hello Sandro,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Sandro Magi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Haskell is migrating away from their C-- backend, and they also have a
> 
> I believe this is incorrect.  I spoke with Simon Peyton-Jones at the
> 2009 Haskell Symposium, and we discussed John Dias actively working on
> C-- for the GHC native code gen (NCG) backend.
> 
> Also, this wiki page supports my claim.
> "Cmm is the basis for the future of GHC, Native Code Generation, and
> if you are interested in hacking Cmm at least this page might help
> reduce your learning curve."
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/CmmType
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Donnie
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