Sam Martin wrote:
In short, I'd like to use Haskell as a code-generator.
I can't see that this would be unachievable, particularly given it's
generating C already. Have I missed something?
For the case of GHC at least, you may be. The "C" that GHC compiles
Haskell into isn't C in the normal linguistic sense, but rather C as a
syntax for portable assembly. The GHC runtime is an STG-machine, so the
"C" code for a program is really just declarations of the language of
thunks and closures for the STG to do graph reduction on.
I seem to recall that there are other Haskell compilers which make more
of an effort to target C as an output language (rather than targeting
portable assembly), though I haven't tried them myself.
--
Live well,
~wren
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