August & September Edition

Due to a lot of traveling in September, I wan’t able to write the August update in September. So what happened in the last two month?

For the cross compilation pipeline through the llvm-ng, I’ve added binary serializability of cmm to a custom ghc fork, that allows to dump the cmm representation. This is helpful as it allows the decoupeling from the code generator and the ghc front end. What usually happens is that ghc reads a file, parses it turns it into an AST, desuguares it, runs a set of optimizations and finally turns it into STG before turning it into cmm. …