Re: Re[2]: Windows-native GHC (Yasm issue)

Hello Bulat,

On Nov 21, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 8:52:55 AM, you wrote:
>
>> I tested out the 0.5.0 build of yasm on assembler output from GHC 6.6
>
> thank you for working on it! i'm among the interested peoples

You are quite welcome!  There still seem to be problems but they are  
not impossible.  My hope is that Yasm's new optimiser may make GHC - 
fasm code smaller and possibly even faster (though I doubt assembler  
optimisations would make that much difference in speed.  I should  
thank you, in return, for your work on Arrays and the haskell.org  
Array page.

By the way, the FSF finally got back to me on GCC licensing.  In  
general, look at each source code file for the referenced license:  
the source code file will refer to the top-level COPYING (GPL) or  
COPYING.LIB (LGPL) license and provide a special exception for  
linkage or static linkage (if any).  The GCC libraries are separate  
from the "Libraries" included as complete, separate libraries in the  
GCC distribution, such as libgfortran.  The GCC libraries are GPL and  
the separate libraries are LGPL.  It turns out that all libraries  
provide special exceptions to their licenses for linkage (GPL) and  
static linkage (LGPL) so everything is o.k.

Cheers,
Peter