Re: Viewing the types declared in GHC.Prim in local machine

I don't think Prim.hs exists (anymore). Depending on how you installed GHC, you might have the Haddock doc files locally, which includes Prim. Or, you can :browse GHC.Prim in GHCi. Or, you can look at compiler/prelude/primops.txt.pp which generates the term-level definitions in Prim. Or, you can look at compiler/prelude/TysPrim.hs which "generates" the type-level definitions in Prim. I hope this helps! Richard

On Mar 19, 2018, at 11:53 AM, Abhiroop Sarkar wrote:

Is it possible to view the types generated in the GHC.Prim module on my local machine?

The commentary[1] states that it is a virtual module and a source file including dummy declarations are available in this location: `libraries/base/GHC/Prim.hs`, however, upon downloading and building the latest GHC codebase I could not find this dummy file on my machine. Do I have to modify my Makefile somehow to generate these dummy types?

For building, I have followed the instructions mentioned here[2] and set `BuildFlavour = devel2`.

Thanks, Abhiroop Sarkar

[1]https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/PrimOps https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/PrimOps [2]https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers

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