Hi Florian,
As Simon PJ said, you'll need to check with Simon M - but I think the
main issue is that the GHC dev team simply has no access to Sparc
machines to test on - so no compile has been attempted for some time.
However, it /used/ to work and the code for the native generator is all
still there..
However, while I was at MSR in July - Sept this year, I implemented a
new graph colouring register allocator which is intended to replace the
existing linear allocator in a subsequent version. The colouring
allocator will need to be extended to deal with the floating point
register pairing on the Sparc. I had this in mind when I wrote the code,
and it's set up for it, but at the time I didn't have access to a
machine to test on so it's not complete.
If you can get the code compiling with at least the linear allocator,
and provide a Sparc shell account then it should only take me a few days
to add. It would certainly be nice to be able to target the new
Niagara/Rock multi-core machines...
Cheers,
Ben.
Florian Lorenzen wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to set up a BuildBot for Solaris 10 running on Sparc for
GHC. If you are interested, please tell me, so I will send you the
details.
Best regards,
Florian
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