I am trying to extract information at the Core level about which functions are the most used within a package, which data types are the most used. So how do I dump the contents of a module to a .hi file? Is this something I can do through the API? Alberto On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan@gmail.com> wrote:
You have to do your manipulations module by module, as GHC is doing compilation that way. If you need some information from other modules when compiling a module, you should dump that information in .hi files (like definitions of inline functions).
What exactly are you trying to do?
2016-05-31 17:56 GMT-04:00 Alberto Sadde O. <albertosadde@gmail.com>:
2016-05-31 16:04 GMT-04:00 Alberto Sadde O. <albertosadde@gmail.com>:
I am trying to get the Core of a whole package. I have been using the GHC API to get the Core of each file in a
package
but I have a problems with non-exposed modules of the package.
Try `cabal install --ghc-options="-ddump-simpl -ddump-to-file"`. You should see Core outputs under `dist/`. (or `cabal configure --ghc-options=...` then `cabal build`)
If you have all the dependencies installed already you can just do `ghc --make Main.hs -fforce-recomp -ddump-simpl -ddump-to-file` where `Main.hs` imports all the modules in your project.
Thanks for the answer. The thing is that I want to manipulate the Core of the package not just simply dump it to a file.