RE: link statically with libc?

(PS: Am I looking in the wrong places, or are a lot of GHC options undocumented? I seem to remember options being brandished about (turn of array bounds checking, tuning unboxing and stuff) that I'm unable to find documented anywhere.)

There might be one or two undocumented optimisation knobs, but I believe everything that is actually useful is documented. Anything undocumented is either broken or experimental. There isn't a flag to turn off array bounds checking - it would require compiling against different libraries. There are array operations that avoid bounds checking, however (eg. unsafeRead, unsafeWrite). The flags that affect automatic boxing/unboxing are -funbox-strict-fields and -fno-strictness. Cheers, Simon