+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- |
+-- Module : GHC.Pack
+-- Copyright : (c) The University of Glasgow 1997-2002
+-- License : see libraries/base/LICENSE
+--
+-- Maintainer : cvs-ghc@haskell.org
+-- Stability : internal
+-- Portability : non-portable (GHC Extensions)
+--
+-- This module provides a small set of low-level functions for packing
+-- and unpacking a chunk of bytes. Used by code emitted by the compiler
+-- plus the prelude libraries.
+--
+-- The programmer level view of packed strings is provided by a GHC
+-- system library PackedString.
+--
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------