On Sun, Jan 15, 2017, at 01:48 AM, Ori Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 01:02:11 +0530, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan > <r...@rkrishnan.org> wrote: > > > After reading your message, I tried compiling a simple program using the > > '-fviaC'. But it looks like, on newer GHC it is deprecated and is going > > to be removed soon. > > Which may still be sufficient to produce a bootstrap binary for -fasm, if > you're willing to put in the effort to get a native port.
It seems like -fviaC does not do *anything* at all in the current version of GHC. I am yet to try my luck with an older version of GHC. There has been some effort to bootstrap GHC using hugs and nhc98, which I am following with interest: <https://elephly.net/posts/2017-01-09-bootstrapping-haskell-part-1.html> -- Ramakrishnan
