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9 <h1>The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) Commentary [v0.4]</h1>
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16 <strong>Manuel M. T. Chakravarty</strong><br>
17 <strong>Simon Marlow</strong><br>
18 <strong>Simon Peyton Jones</strong><br>
19 <strong>Reuben Thomas</strong><br>
22 This document started as a collection of notes describing what <a
23 href="mailto:chak@cse.unsw.edu.au">I</a> learnt when poking around in
24 the <a href="http://haskell.org/ghc/">GHC</a> sources. During the
25 <i>Haskell Implementers Workshop</i> in January 2001 it was decided to
26 put the commentary into
27 <a href="http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/">GHC's CVS
29 to allow the whole developer community to add their wizardly insight to
32 <strong>The document is still in its infancy - help it grow!</strong>
34 <h2>Before the Show Begins</h2>
36 <li><a href="feedback.html">Feedback</a>
37 <li><a href="others.html">Other Sources of Wisdom</a>
42 <li><a href="genesis/genesis.html">Outline of the Genesis</a>
43 <li><a href="genesis/makefiles.html">Mindboggling Makefiles</a>
46 <h2>The Beast Dissected</h2>
48 <li><a href="the-beast/driver.html">The Glorious Driver</a>
49 <li><a href="the-beast/basicTypes.html">The Basics</a>
50 <li><a href="the-beast/vars.html">The Real Story about Variables, Ids, TyVars, and the like</a>
51 <li><a href="the-beast/typecheck.html">Checking Types</a>
52 <li><a href="the-beast/simplifier.html">The Mighty Simplifier</a>
53 <li><a href="the-beast/mangler.html">The Evil Mangler</a>
54 <li><a href="the-beast/alien.html">Alien Functions</a>
57 <h2>RTS & Libraries</h2>
59 <li><a href="rts-libs/stgc.html">Spineless Tagless C</a>
60 <li><a href="rts-libs/primitives.html">Primitives</a>
61 <li><a href="rts-libs/prelfound.html">Prelude Foundations</a>
62 <li><a href="rts-libs/prelude.html">Cunning Prelude Code</a>
63 <li><!-- <a href="rts-libs/arrays.html"> -->Array Libraries</a>
64 <small>[not available yet]</small>
65 <li><a href="rts-libs/foreignptr.html">On why we have <tt>ForeignPtr</tt></a>
68 The online master copy of the Commentary is at
70 <a href="http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc/comm/">http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc/comm/</a>
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