On 8/3/09, Richard Kelsall <r.kels...@millstream.com> wrote: > This page > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/documentation.html > > has a link to the September 2001 (Draft for GHC 5.02) document > describing GHC Core (in what is for me user-hostile .ps.gz format.) > > And this page > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ext-core.html > > promises an easier format PDF document, but the link is broken. >
Thanks, I reopened the Trac ticket on that documentation bug: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3135 > > I did eventually find the 1st April 2009 GHC 6.10 document here > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/ext-core/core.pdf > > and a bit on this page > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/options-debugging.html#id468571 > > about GHC core. I haven't read these yet, but could I ask whether they > constitute the complete current documentation for GHC core? (I'm just > curious to get a flavour of what core does.) > The PDF file is the complete documentation for External Core, along with the typechecker and interpreter (providing a static and dynamic semantics for External Core) under utils/ext-core in the GHC source tree. The version of Core described in the user manual is a little different. If you have questions about any of the abovementioned documentation, please CC both me and this list, as I don't read the GHC lists often. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc * Often in error, never in doubt "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
