id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
608,Make the NCG able to compile the RTS,simonmar,wolfgang,"{{{
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.

}}}",task,closed,normal,,Compiler,None,fixed,,,Unknown/Multiple,Unknown/Multiple,,Difficult (2-5 days),,,,