The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) Commentary [v0.1]

Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
 

This document started as a collection of notes describing what I learnt when poking around in the GHC sources. During the Haskell Implementers Workshop in January 2001 it was decided to put the commentary into GHC's CVS repository to allow the whole developer community to add their wizardly insight to the document.

The document is still in its infancy - help it grow!

Before the Show Begins

• Feedback
• Other Sources of Wisdom

Genesis

• Outline of the Genesis
• Mindboggling Makefiles

The Beast Dissected

• The Glorious Driver
• The Basics
• Checking Types
• The Mighty Simplifier
• The Evil Mangler

RTS & Libraries

• Spineless Tagless C
• Primitives
• Prelude Foundations
• Cunning Prelude Code
• Array Libraries [not available yet]

Last modified: Wed Aug 8 00:11:49 EST 2001