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@@ -35,16 +35,31 @@
possible while not making too much effort to optimise the generated
code (although GHC probably isn't what you'd describe as a fast
compiler :-).
-
+
GHC's profiling system supports “cost centre
stacks”: a way of seeing the profile of a Haskell program in a
call-graph like structure. See for more
details.
- GHC comes with a large collection of libraries, with
- everything from parser combinators to networking. The libraries are
+ GHC comes with a number of libraries. These are
described in separate documentation.
+
+ Obtaining GHC
+
+ Go to the GHC home
+ page and follow the "download" link to download GHC
+ for your platform.
+
+ Alternatively, if you want to build GHC yourself, head on
+ over to the
+ GHC
+ Building Guide to find out how to get the sources, and
+ build it on your system. Note that GHC itself is written in
+ Haskell, so you will still need to install GHC in order to
+ build it.
+
+
Meta-information: Web sites, mailing lists, etc.
@@ -56,24 +71,18 @@
- Haskell home
- page
-
-
-
GHC home
page
- comp.lang.functional
- FAQ
+ GHC
+ Developers Home (developer documentation, wiki, and
+ bug tracker)
-
- We run the following mailing lists about Glasgow Haskell.
+ We run the following mailing lists about GHC.
We encourage you to join, as you feel is appropriate.
@@ -83,7 +92,7 @@
This list is for GHC users to chat among themselves.
If you have a specific question about GHC, please check the
FAQ
+ url="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/FAQ">FAQ
first.
@@ -95,7 +104,7 @@
- subscribe at:
+ subscribe at:
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users.
@@ -123,9 +132,9 @@
glasgow-haskell-bugs:
- Send bug reports for GHC to this address! The sad and
- lonely people who subscribe to this list will muse upon
- what's wrong and what you might do about it.
+ This list is for reporting and discussing GHC bugs.
+ However, please see before
+ posting here.
@@ -136,7 +145,7 @@
- subscribe at:
+ subscribe at:
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs.
@@ -154,7 +163,7 @@
list archives:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/
+ url="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/">http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/
@@ -165,12 +174,11 @@
cvs-ghc:
The hardcore GHC developers hang out here. This list
- also gets commit message from the CVS repository. There are
- several other similar lists for other parts of the CVS
- repository (eg. cvs-hslibs,
- cvs-happy, cvs-hdirect
- etc.)
-
+ also gets commit message from the GHC darcs repository. There are
+ other lists for other darcs
+ repositories (most notably cvs-libraries).
+
+
list email address:
@@ -180,7 +188,7 @@
- subscribe at:
+ subscribe at:
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc.
@@ -265,7 +273,7 @@
-
+
Stable snapshots
@@ -330,7 +338,7 @@
-
+
The version number of your copy of GHC can be found by
invoking ghc with the
––version flag (see
-&relnotes;
+&relnotes1;