1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 3.02
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 3.02. The source distribution is freely
6 available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
8 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
9 current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell
10 related information is available from the Haskell home page at
17 GHC 3.02 is a source-only release. Major news items:
20 * Many bugs fixed, including several performance-related ones,
21 * A new unsafeCoerce# primitive.
23 GHC 3.02 produces the fastest code since 0.29, but there's still
24 plenty of tuning to do.
29 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
30 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
32 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
34 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
35 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
38 + On-line GHC-related resources
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41 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
43 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
44 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
45 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
46 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
52 The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
55 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
57 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
58 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
59 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
64 ======================
66 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
67 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (version
68 2.10 at least). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
71 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
72 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
74 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
75 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
77 Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's
78 guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
79 an on-line version can be found at
81 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/3.02/installation_guide/installing_toc.html