Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

On 2019-08-08 23:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 8/8/19 10:38 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Any comments, ideas, or help here?
> I'm by no means a GHC nor Haskell expert, but I think it should be generally
> feasible to add native code generation support in GHC for all architectures
> which are supported by LLVM.
> 
> According to a bug report I saw upstream [1], adding native support for GHC
> through LLVM is comparably easy and might be a good options for mips*, riscv*,
> s390x and sparc* which all are officially supported by LLVM but have no NGC
> in GHC (with the exception of SPARC which has a 32-bit NGC that James Clarke is
> currently porting to SPARC64 [2]).

Yes, that's clearly the way to go for the GHC issue. As a bonus it
greatly improves the performances.

That said it doesn't solve the problem in general, ie for rustc or the
future affected packages.

Aurelien