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 * A new unsafeCoerce# primitive.
22 * Many bugs fixed, including several performance-related ones,
24 GHC 3.02 produces the fastest code since 0.29, but there's still
25 plenty of tuning to do.
30 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
31 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
33 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
35 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
36 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
39 + On-line GHC-related resources
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42 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
44 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
45 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
46 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
47 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
53 The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
56 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
58 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
59 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
60 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
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67 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
68 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (version
69 2.10 at least). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
72 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
73 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
75 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
76 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
78 Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's
79 guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
80 an on-line version can be found at
82 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/3.02/installation_guide/installing_toc.html