On 8/3/09, Richard Kelsall wrote:

This page

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/documentation.html

has a link to the September 2001 (Draft for GHC 5.02) document describing GHC Core (in what is for me user-hostile .ps.gz format.)

And this page

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ext-core.html

promises an easier format PDF document, but the link is broken.

Thanks, I reopened the Trac ticket on that documentation bug: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3135

I did eventually find the 1st April 2009 GHC 6.10 document here

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/ext-core/core.pdf

and a bit on this page

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/options-debugging.ht...

about GHC core. I haven't read these yet, but could I ask whether they constitute the complete current documentation for GHC core? (I'm just curious to get a flavour of what core does.)

The PDF file is the complete documentation for External Core, along with the typechecker and interpreter (providing a static and dynamic semantics for External Core) under utils/ext-core in the GHC source tree. The version of Core described in the user manual is a little different. If you have questions about any of the abovementioned documentation, please CC both me and this list, as I don't read the GHC lists often. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc * Often in error, never in doubt "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin