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Most of the other users of the fptools build system have migrated to
Cabal, and with the move to darcs we can now flatten the source tree
without losing history, so here goes.
The main change is that the ghc/ subdir is gone, and most of what it
contained is now at the top level. The build system now makes no
pretense at being multi-project, it is just the GHC build system.
No doubt this will break many things, and there will be a period of
instability while we fix the dependencies. A straightforward build
should work, but I haven't yet fixed binary/source distributions.
Changes to the Building Guide will follow, too.
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Small code-size optimisation: I forgot to add a specialised case for
functions with no argument words (which might happen if the function
takes a void argument, for example).
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* Some preprocessors don't like the C99/C++ '//' comments after a
directive, so use '/* */' instead. For consistency, a lot of '//' in
the include files were converted, too.
* UnDOSified libraries/base/cbits/runProcess.c.
* My favourite sport: Killed $Id$s.
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Merge backend-hacking-branch onto HEAD. Yay!
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Merge the eval-apply-branch on to the HEAD
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This is a change to GHC's evaluation model in order to ultimately make
GHC more portable and to reduce complexity in some areas.
At some point we'll update the commentary to describe the new state of
the RTS. Pending that, the highlights of this change are:
- No more Su. The Su register is gone, update frames are one
word smaller.
- Slow-entry points and arg checks are gone. Unknown function calls
are handled by automatically-generated RTS entry points (AutoApply.hc,
generated by the program in utils/genapply).
- The stack layout is stricter: there are no "pending arguments" on
the stack any more, the stack is always strictly a sequence of
stack frames.
This means that there's no need for LOOKS_LIKE_GHC_INFO() or
LOOKS_LIKE_STATIC_CLOSURE() any more, and GHC doesn't need to know
how to find the boundary between the text and data segments (BIG WIN!).
- A couple of nasty hacks in the mangler caused by the neet to
identify closure ptrs vs. info tables have gone away.
- Info tables are a bit more complicated. See InfoTables.h for the
details.
- As a side effect, GHCi can now deal with polymorphic seq. Some bugs
in GHCi which affected primitives and unboxed tuples are now
fixed.
- Binary sizes are reduced by about 7% on x86. Performance is roughly
similar, some programs get faster while some get slower. I've seen
GHCi perform worse on some examples, but haven't investigated
further yet (GHCi performance *should* be about the same or better
in theory).
- Internally the code generator is rather better organised. I've moved
info-table generation from the NCG into the main codeGen where it is
shared with the C back-end; info tables are now emitted as arrays
of words in both back-ends. The NCG is one step closer to being able
to support profiling.
This has all been fairly thoroughly tested, but no doubt I've messed
up the commit in some way.
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Two files that shouldn't have been on the HEAD (yet)
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Snapshot of the Eval/Apply changes, c. 15 Nov 2002. This snapshot
should be relatively stable, although GHCi and profiling are currently
known to be broken.
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