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| author | Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> | 2010-06-25 10:03:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> | 2010-06-25 10:03:13 +0000 |
| commit | 95240c4420e47d06c03ec5d36784102386fae445 (patch) | |
| tree | e909967130c7eaac423d1e768df0ae60b25b0855 /compiler/prelude | |
| parent | 8fdb09e2610927c2bd65fca31965893216e4da34 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-95240c4420e47d06c03ec5d36784102386fae445.tar.gz | |
remove out of date comments; point to the wiki
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| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/prelude/primops.txt.pp | 27 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/prelude/primops.txt.pp b/compiler/prelude/primops.txt.pp index abc9560d60..99d364a97e 100644 --- a/compiler/prelude/primops.txt.pp +++ b/compiler/prelude/primops.txt.pp @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: primops.txt.pp,v 1.37 2005/11/25 09:46:19 simonmar Exp $ +-- +-- (c) 2010 The University of Glasgow -- -- Primitive Operations and Types -- +-- For more information on PrimOps, see +-- http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/PrimOps +-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This file is processed by the utility program genprimopcode to produce @@ -11,25 +15,10 @@ -- -- It should first be preprocessed. -- --- To add a new primop, you currently need to update the following files: --- --- - this file (ghc/compiler/prelude/primops.txt.pp), which includes --- the type of the primop, and various other properties (its --- strictness attributes, whether it is defined as a macro --- or as out-of-line code, etc.) --- --- - if the primop is inline (i.e. a macro), then: --- ghc/compiler/AbsCUtils.lhs (dscCOpStmt) --- defines the translation of the primop into simpler --- abstract C operations. --- --- - or, for an out-of-line primop: --- ghc/includes/StgMiscClosures.h (just add the declaration) --- ghc/rts/PrimOps.cmm (define it here) --- ghc/rts/Linker.c (declare the symbol for GHCi) --- --- - the User's Guide +-- Information on how PrimOps are implemented and the steps necessary to +-- add a new one can be found in the Commentary: -- +-- http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/PrimOps -- This file is divided into named sections, each containing or more -- primop entries. Section headers have the format: |