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9 <h1>The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) Commentary [v0.2]</h1>
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16 <strong>Manuel M. T. Chakravarty</strong><br>
19 This document started as a collection of notes describing what <a
20 href="mailto:chak@cse.unsw.edu.au">I</a> learnt when poking around in
21 the <a href="http://haskell.org/ghc/">GHC</a> sources. During the
22 <i>Haskell Implementers Workshop</i> in January 2001 it was decided to
23 put the commentary into
24 <a href="http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/">GHC's CVS
26 to allow the whole developer community to add their wizardly insight to
27 the document. The Commentary is available online at
29 <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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38 <strong>The document is still in its infancy - help it grow!</strong>
40 <h2>Before the Show Begins</h2>
43 <li><a href="feedback.html">Feedback</a>
44 <li><a href="others.html">Other Sources of Wisdom</a>
50 <li><a href="genesis/genesis.html">Outline of the Genesis</a>
51 <li><a href="genesis/makefiles.html">Mindboggling Makefiles</a>
54 <h2>The Beast Dissected</h2>
57 <li><a href="the-beast/driver.html">The Glorious Driver</a>
58 <li><a href="the-beast/basicTypes.html">The Basics</a>
59 <li><a href="the-beast/typecheck.html">Checking Types</a>
60 <li><a href="the-beast/simplifier.html">The Mighty Simplifier</a>
61 <li><a href="the-beast/mangler.html">The Evil Mangler</a>
62 <li><a href="the-beast/alien.html">Alien Functions</a>
65 <h2>RTS & Libraries</h2>
68 <li><a href="rts-libs/stgc.html">Spineless Tagless C</a>
69 <li><a href="rts-libs/primitives.html">Primitives</a>
70 <li><a href="rts-libs/prelfound.html">Prelude Foundations</a>
71 <li><a href="rts-libs/prelude.html">Cunning Prelude Code</a>
72 <li><!-- <a href="rts-libs/arrays.html"> -->Array Libraries</a>
73 <small>[not available yet]</small>
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