1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.02
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4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 4.01. 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 4.02 fixes several bugs in 4.01 and adds one new feature: scoped
18 type variables. Some Haskell 98 features are also now supported,
19 including lazy name clash detection and scoped infix declarations.
21 The following things have not been fixed yet:
23 * The native code generator is still flaky, and is turned off by
24 default for the time being.
26 * The profiler is still flaky.
28 * The garbage collector is still a two-space copying collector. We're
29 working on a generational collector right now.
34 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
35 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
37 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
39 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
40 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
43 + On-line GHC-related resources
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46 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
48 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
49 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
50 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
51 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
57 The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
60 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
62 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
63 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
64 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
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71 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 32+MB
72 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (version
73 2.10 at least, 3.02 recommended). This release is known to work on
74 the following platforms:
76 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}
77 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
79 Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy, but
80 haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware:
83 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
85 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
87 The installer's guide included in distribution gives a complete
88 run-down of what-ports-work; an on-line version can be found at
90 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/4.01/installation_guide/installing_toc.html