[haskell-llvm] Towards 0.10

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Jul 14, 2011, at 0:50, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

> Does it work with GHCi?

Unlikely, since the libstdc++ ghci bug would affect it.

> I think calling the optimization functions of LLVM directly is a good thing, in order to stay in sync with LLVM's functionality.

Yep, the previous code duplication was why the examples were crashing with 2.9.

> It seems you managed to mix Haskell code with C++. Do you know whether this reduces portability?

It doesn't seem to. There are quite a few packages doing this now. Having to go through C wrappers is annoying, but not fatal. That's all the llvm-c interface is anyway.

> I long wanted to call some more functions of LLVM, that are not exposed via the C interface to LLVM. E.g. I wanted to call Target and SubTarget determination in order to insert processor specific optimizations for vector processing. Currently I use the 'cpuid' package for this, but this only works if the code is compiled for the machine I am currently running on. Asking LLVM for the target is the clean way.