1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.04
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 4.04. 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 Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998.
10 Haskell related information is available from the Haskell home page at
12 http://www.haskell.org/
14 GHC's Web page lives at
16 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
21 - GHC is now officially Open Source, see the LICENSE file in the
22 distribution for details.
24 - Rewrite rules can be specified in the source using the RULES
25 pragma. This is used for automatic fusion of common list functions.
27 - Performance tuning: compiled programs now allocate 30% less
28 and run 20% faster on average compared to GHC 4.02.
30 - GHC now uses a Happy parser instead of the old yacc/lex one.
32 For full details see the release notes:
34 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/users_guide/users_guide-1.html#ss1.4
39 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
40 mail to majordomo@haskell.org; the msg body should be:
42 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
44 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org ; GHC
45 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
48 + On-line GHC-related resources
49 ================================
51 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
53 GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
54 Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
55 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
61 The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
64 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
66 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
67 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
68 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
73 ======================
75 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 32+MB
76 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (3.02 at
77 least). This release is known to work on the following platforms:
79 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,netbsd,cygwin32}
80 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
81 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
83 Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy, but
84 haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware:
88 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
90 The installer's guide included in distribution gives a complete
91 run-down of what-ports-work; an on-line version can be found at
93 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/installation_guide/installing.html