1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.02
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 4.02. 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 Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998.
10 Haskell related information is available from the Haskell home page at
17 GHC 4.02 fixes several bugs in 4.01 and adds the following features:
19 * Full Haskell 98 language support,
21 * Scoped type variables,
23 * A new generational garbage collector.
25 The following things have not been fixed yet:
27 * The native code generator is still flaky, and is turned off by
28 default for the time being.
30 * The profiler is still flaky.
32 As usual, see the release notes (on the web page) for full details.
34 A source distribution and binaries for common architectures are
35 available from the web page.
40 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
41 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
43 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
45 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
46 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
49 + On-line GHC-related resources
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52 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
54 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
55 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
56 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
57 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
63 The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
66 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
68 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
69 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
70 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
75 ======================
77 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 32+MB
78 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (version
79 2.10 at least, 3.02 recommended). This release is known to work on
80 the following platforms:
82 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}
83 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
85 Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy, but
86 haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware:
89 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
91 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
93 The installer's guide included in distribution gives a complete
94 run-down of what-ports-work; an on-line version can be found at
96 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/4.02/installation_guide/installing_toc.html