Ticket #608 (closed task: fixed)
Make the NCG able to compile the RTS
Description (last modified by simonmar) (diff)
It is almost possible to compile the RTS with the native code generator. What is missing is support for loops: code generated by GHC doesn't normally contain loops (or rather, loops are explicit as jumps to top-level labels), but the RTS code does contain some loops. The register allocator in particular will need some work. There's nothing fundamentally difficult here, and it doesn't need to do a fantastic job, just a half-decent one. The code to be compiled in the RTS isn't performance-critical.
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