during the execution of the <code>boot</code> target in the
<code>fptools/ghc/</code> directory. This scheme significantly
simplifies the maintenance of primitive operations.
-
+ <p>
+ As of development version 5.02, the <code>primops.txt</code> file also allows the
+ recording of documentation about intended semantics of the primitives. This can
+ be extracted into a latex document (or rather, into latex document fragments)
+ via an appropriate switch to <code>genprimopcode</code>. In particular, see <code>primops.txt</code>
+ for full details of how GHC is configured to cope with different machine word sizes.
<p><small>
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