the historical c-- page still lives where norman moved it www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/index.html
(and has all the content still) On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Sergei > > C-- was originally envisaged as a target language for a variety of > compilers. But in fact LLVM, which was developed at a similar time, "won" > that race and has built a far larger ecosystem. That's fine with us -- > it's great how successful LLVM has been -- but it means that C-- is now > used essentially only in GHC. > > I'm not sure where the original C-- documents now are; Norman can you say? > (I do know that the cminusminus.org has lapsed.) > > The GHC variant of C-- is defined mainly by the Cmm data type in GHC's > source code. It does have a concrete syntax, because some bits of GHC's > runtime system are written in Cmm. But I fear that this concrete language > is not well documented. (Simon Marlow may know more here.) > > Because GHC's Cmm is part of GHC, we are free to change it. Would you > like to say more about the change you want to make, and why you want to > make it? Is this relating directly to GHC or to some other project? > > Simon > > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: Sergei Trofimovich [mailto:sly...@gmail.com] > | Sent: 14 September 2014 17:16 > | To: Simon Peyton Jones > | Subject: cminusminus.org does not have a link to the spec > | > | Hello Simon! > | > | I had a plan to tweak a bit "import" statement > | syntax of Cmm in GHC. > | > | Namely, to distinct between > | import some_c_function; > | import some_c_global_variable; > | > | To try it I first attempted to find latest c-- spec > | (to find some design sketches if available) at > | > | http://www.cminusminus.org/c-downloads/ > | > | But seems the links (and images?) have gone away > | as well as rsync server described at: > | > | http://www.cminusminus.org/the-c-rsync-server/ > | > | Maybe you could forward it to site admins so they would > | tweak links or point me to working copy. > | > | Apologies for bothering you on such minor > | > | Thank you! > | > | -- > | > | Sergei > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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