1 This is version 0.20 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
4 Version 0.20 is an "internal" release, intended *ONLY* for the most
7 * Many things about it may be broken, though it
8 does compile and run most programs.
10 * I/O and ccall scheme re-done; any such low-level code probably needs
11 fixing; I/O attempts to follow 1.3 I/O proposal. All ccall
12 arguments and results are automagically "boxed".
14 * PrimOps fiddled; any code that uses them directly will probably need
17 * We've renamed some things, so as to move to a we-don't-steal-user-
18 name-space policy. Thus "tagCmp" has become "_tagCmp". Names starting
19 with underscores are now cool if -fglasgow-exts.
21 You might want to see our "state-interface" document if you mess
22 with all this low-level/non-standard stuff; I'll try to remember to
23 put a copy up for FTP.
25 * No promises about profiling.
27 * Documentation is untouched since 0.19.
29 Version 0.19 was the last public release. It has held up pretty well
30 and should be available wherever you got 0.20 from. I commend 0.19 to
33 Configuring 0.20 is a little different than 0.19:
36 % ./configure --with-boot=c
42 * It's wrong for jmake to tell you "0: unknown flag -traditional"; but
45 * The 0.20 compiler seems more likely to run out of stack; use
46 -Rmax-stksize2m (or something) to increase; within the distribution,
47 probably something like...
49 % make EXTRA_HC_OPTS="-H20m -Rmax-stksize4m"
51 See the "configure" script if you want to know what other options are
52 -- there is no other documentation at this time!
54 Will Partain, AQUA project typist
55 partain@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk