Yhc

Part of Yhc (Download)

- York Haskell Compiler

Warning: This project is by no means finished, and is not useable as a standard Haskell compiler yet. This project is run by 3 York [ex-]students, and is not an official York Uni project.

See the official home page at http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/yhc/ (Most of that page will be moved to the wiki over time). The old haskell wiki pages have been moved over.

Yhc Manual

This is the official Yhc manual, feel free to edit it!

1. Introduction - how to get it, who to contact
   • FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
   • Using Yhc - short tutorial on yhc, yhi, yhe
2. Options - command line options and environment variables
3. Building - building yhc from source
4. Hacking - how to hack on Yhc
   • Porting - how to port Yhc to a new architecture/platform
   • Debug Flags - flags to help debug the compiler
5. Runtime System - information on the runtime system
   • Machine - the virtual machine architecture
   • Heap - how the heap is laid out
   • Modules
   • .hbc format
   • Bytecodes
   • Concurrency - how this is implemented
6. Applications - additional tools for use with Yhc
   • Yhe - the evaluator (like GHCi)
   • Pyhi - the python runtime
7. API's - API (programmer libraries) we intend to provide
   • Yhc Core - similar to GHC Core, but for Yhc
   • Bytecode API - Haskell API to play with .hbc files
   • Compiler API - Haskell API for playing with Haskell files
   • Interpreter API - C API for running .hbc files
8. Ideas - these are all for the future
   • Todo - things on the todo list
   • Gtk2Hs - porting Gtk2Hs to Yhc
   • Heap Profiling
   • Path Handling - how file paths should be used