Re: Status of "Improved LLVM backend"

Hi, I’m trying to implement a bitcode producing llvm backend[1], which would potentially allow to use a range of llvm versions with ghc. However, this is only tangentially relevant to the improved llvm backend, as Austin correctly pointed out[2], as there are other complications besides the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

On 25 November 2016 at 23:38, Ben Gamari wrote: > > As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone > who has contributed so far! No trouble building and running rc1, but some code in xmonad-contrib that builds fine with 8.0.1 doesn't with 8.0.2-rc1. Not

Status of "Improved LLVM backend"

Hi all, I was wondering what’s the current status of the “Improved LLVM backend” project ( https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ImprovedLLVMBackend ). The page mentions a few main problems, but some seem to be already fixed: 1) Using/supporting only one version of LLVM. This has been done

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

I think I am very atypical as I had the Haskell Platform installed and did an uninstall-hs before installing this release candidate. This is on the latest Mac OS and Xcode. At the time I got the error the file was a symbolic link, I believe to an existing file: install:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

George Colpitts writes: > Thanks Ben, this is great! > > Installing the binary on the Mac results in the following minor problem: > > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/users_guide/build-man/ghc.1 > "/usr/local/share/man/man1" > install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: