Dan Piponi wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Andrew Coppin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In other words, Haskell is an excellent language for designing
special-purpose compilers and interpretters for custom languages. ;-)
If I knew a damned thing about IA32 assembly and dynamic linkage, I'd be
tempted to try it myself...
You could generate assembly language instructions directly.
Yeah. I figure if I knew enough about this stuff, I could poke code
numbers directly into RAM representing the opcodes of the machine
instructions. Then I "only" need to figure out how to call it from
Haskell. It all sounds pretty non-trivial if you ask me though... ;-)
[Don't some OS versions implement execution-prevention? Presumably you'd
also have to bypass that in some platform-dependent way too...]
But if you
use the Haskell LLVM bindings your generated code will be (1) platform
independent and (2) optimised. I think there's a cool project lurking
there.
Never heard of LLVM, but from the Wikipedia description it sound like
warm trippy goodness. Pitty there's no Haddock. :-(
[From the build log, it looks like it failed because the build machine
doesn't have the LLVM library installed. Is that really necessary just
for building the docs?]
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