A few Questions ...

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> I actually meant both.  In a patch from 04 October (this year), with
> the name beginning "Remove ILX from the GHC altogether ..." Simon
> Peyton-Jones removed ILX stuff from the Haskell-code in the compiler:
>      M ./compiler/main/CodeOutput.lhs -27
>      M ./compiler/main/DriverPhases.hs -4
>      M ./compiler/main/DynFlags.hs -4 +1
>      M ./compiler/stgSyn/CoreToStg.lhs -13
>      M ./compiler/typecheck/TcForeign.lhs -3 +1
> In a message you sent on 18 May 2005 to the FFI mailing list (at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ffi@haskell.org/msg01814.html), in
> reference to the FFI syntax "foreign type..." you mentioned the
> experiment to have GHC generate code for .NET.  (I am not sure what
> you meant--maybe bytecode, so the .NET-FFI is still live?)

If anyone does have a burning .NET/ILX desire, then the Yhc project
has a functioning ILX bytecode generator for Haskell - see
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yhc - and pass the -dotnet flag.

Thanks

Neil