Yhc

Part of Yhc (Download)

- York Haskell Compiler

Warning, this compiler is not finished, and is not useable as a standard Haskell Compiler. It is also not an official York project.

Installing Yhc

• Windows users - See the instructions to get a snapshot.
• Other users - See the building guide.

Further information

• Blog
• Mailing List - users and developers
• Build bot - build status reports
• Bug tracker
• Haddock documentation
• Darcs Web

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
   • HCAR Entries - small overview progress reports
2. Options - command line options and environment variables
3. Building - building yhc from source
   • Buildbot - regular Yhc builds
   • Snapshots - Windows binary snapshots
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
   • Primitives - information about the primitives
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
   • Javascript - Javascript back end
7. API's - API (programmer libraries) available
   • 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 (pending)
   • Interpreter API - C API for running .hbc files (pending)
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
9. Notes - random notes collection

Contributors

The "Yhc team" consists of a bunch of friend people, who enjoy doing this kind of thing. We include Tom Shackell, Neil Mitchell, Andrew Wilkinson, Mike Dodds, Bob Davie, Dimitry Golubovsky (insert your name here)