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    <h1>The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) Commentary [v0.17]</h1>
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      <strong>Manuel M. T. Chakravarty</strong><br>
      <strong>Sigbjorn Finne</strong><br>
      <strong>Simon Marlow</strong><br>
      <strong>Simon Peyton Jones</strong><br>
      <strong>Julian Seward</strong><br>
      <strong>Reuben Thomas</strong><br>
      &nbsp;<br>
    <p>
      This document started as a collection of notes describing what <a
      href="mailto:chak@cse.unsw.edu.au">I</a> learnt when poking around in
      the <a href="http://haskell.org/ghc/">GHC</a> sources.  During the
      <i>Haskell Implementers Workshop</i> in January 2001, it was decided to
      put the commentary into 
      <a href="http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/">GHC's CVS
	repository</a>
      to allow the whole developer community to add their wizardly insight to
      the document.
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      <strong>The document is still far from being complete - help it
      grow!</strong> 

    <h2>Before the Show Begins</h2>
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    <ul>
      <li><a href="feedback.html">Feedback</a>
      <li><a href="others.html">Other Sources of Wisdom</a>
    </ul>

    <h2>Genesis</h2>
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    <ul>
      <li><a href="genesis/genesis.html">Outline of the Genesis</a>
      <li><a href="genesis/makefiles.html">Mindboggling Makefiles</a>
      <li><a href="genesis/modules.html">GHC's Marvellous Module Structure</a>
    </ul>

    <h2>The Beast Dissected</h2>
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      <li><a href="the-beast/coding-style.html">Coding style used in
      the compiler</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/driver.html">The Glorious Driver</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/prelude.html">Primitives and the Prelude</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/syntax.html">Just Syntax</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/basicTypes.html">The Basics</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/modules.html">Modules, ModuleNames and
	  Packages</a> 
      <li><a href="the-beast/names.html">The truth about names: Names and OccNames</a> 
      <li><a href="the-beast/vars.html">The Real Story about Variables, Ids,
	  TyVars, and the like</a> 
      <li><a href="the-beast/data-types.html">Data types and constructors</a> 
      <li><a href="the-beast/renamer.html">The Glorious Renamer</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/types.html">Hybrid Types</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/typecheck.html">Checking Types</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/desugar.html">Sugar Free: From Haskell To Core</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/simplifier.html">The Mighty Simplifier</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/mangler.html">The Evil Mangler</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/alien.html">Alien Functions</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/stg.html">You Got Control: The STG-language</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/ncg.html">The Native Code Generator</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/ghci.html">GHCi</a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/fexport.html">Implementation of
                                           <code>foreign export</code></a>
      <li><a href="the-beast/main.html">Compiling and running the Main module</code></a>
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    <h2>RTS &amp; Libraries</h2>
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    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts/Conventions">Coding Style Guidelines</a>
      <li><a href="rts-libs/stgc.html">Spineless Tagless C</a>
      <li><a href="rts-libs/primitives.html">Primitives</a>
      <li><a href="rts-libs/prelfound.html">Prelude Foundations</a>
      <li><a href="rts-libs/prelude.html">Cunning Prelude Code</a>
      <li><a href="rts-libs/foreignptr.html">On why we have <tt>ForeignPtr</tt></a> 
      <li><a href="rts-libs/non-blocking.html">Non-blocking I/O for Win32</a>
      <li><a href="rts-libs/multi-thread.html">Supporting multi-threaded interoperation</a>
    </ul>

    <h2>Extensions, or Making a Complicated System More Complicated</h2>
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    <ul>
      <li><a href="exts/th.html">Template Haskell</a>
      <li><a href="exts/ndp.html">Parallel Arrays</a>
    </ul>

    <h2>The Source</h2>
    <p>
      The online master copy of the Commentary is at
    <blockquote>
      <a href="http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc/comm/">http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc/comm/</a>
    </blockquote>
    <p>
      This online version is updated 
      <a
	 href="http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/ghc/docs/comm/">from 
	CVS</a>
      daily.

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