patch applied (ghc): replace Cmm 'hint' with 'kind'
Norman Ramsey
nr at eecs.harvard.edu
Mon May 5 22:51:49 EDT 2008
> this place seems to allude to "hints" as well as the hacky tuple that I
> think is the one I fixed by turning it into a data type (so it could be put
> into typeclasses reasonably), but maybe isn't up-to-date, and doesn't
> explain it:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/BackEndTypes#Foreigncallsandhints
Hmmm. I found myself baffled by much of this text.
I suspect that to fix it may take the combined efforts of multiple people.
We have a virtual meeting of back-end boffins scheduled for this week.
Norman
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