[project @ 2001-09-06 14:41:21 by apt]

add pointer to primops.txt documentation feature

diff --git a/ghc/docs/comm/rts-libs/primitives.html b/ghc/docs/comm/rts-libs/primitives.html
index 19095b4..bcd67e1 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/docs/comm/rts-libs/primitives.html
+++ b/ghc/docs/comm/rts-libs/primitives.html
@@ -53,7 +53,12 @@
       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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