The Evil Mangler

[David Terei]

On 16 January 2012 16:47, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The commentary on available backends
>
>    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/Backends
>
> moans about the Evil Mangler.  The wiki page for the latter
>
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/EvilMangler
>
> says GHC no longer as an evil mangler.  If this is indeed the case, then
> shouldn't the backend page be updated?

Yes. Feel free to do so. The commentary is sadly not that accurate at
times as it is often outdated.

> A related question: what is the
> state the C code generator?  Is it deprecated as the backend page seems
> to suggest when the Evil Mangler goes away?

It is. It isn't included with GHC anymore in a standard (registerised)
build. It is still supported when GHC is built in unregisterised mode
for porting purposes.

Cheers,
David