Are all of these links collected on the GHC wiki somewhere? If not, would you mind adding them?
I, for one, appreciate a curated list of references like this! On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Arash Rouhani <rar...@student.chalmers.se> wrote: > (Sorry Florian, I forgot to "reply to list"!) > > Hi Florian! > > Forget Cminusminus.org, in my experience it seems to have diverged from the > GHC version of Cminusminus. > > I would recommend these resources > > See the top of > https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/compiler/cmm/CmmParse.y > Be ready to occasionally look into > https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/includes/Cmm.h > Edward Yang's blog post is a must-read > http://blog.ezyang.com/2013/07/no-grammar-no-problem/ (less than a year old) > You can also get the big picture of Cmm from David Terei's bachelor thesis: > https://davidterei.com/downloads/papers/terei:2009:honours_thesis.pdf > 2 years ago, Simon Marlow extended the classical Cmm syntax to make it much > nicer: > https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/a7c0387d20c1c9994d1100b14fbb8fb4e28a259e > The commentary (it is kinda outdated in my experience, but worth taking a > look :)), https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts/Cmm and > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/CmmType > Read the code! There's a lot of Cmm files and after looking at various parts > of it for a while parts start to make sense :) > Shameless plug: You might find sections 4.2 and 4.2.1 from my master thesis > helpful to understand the difference between arguments and fields. > http://arashrouhani.com/papers/master-thesis.pdf > > And it will take time to learn Cmm. The most unintuitive thing for me that > took me a while to understand is that there are no function calls in > "classical" cmm code. The newer syntax allows function calls but you should > know that they are kind of magical. Hope this helps! :) > > (Sorry for giving so many reading references :p) > > Cheers, > Arash > > > > On 2014-05-03 12:05, Florian Weimer wrote: > > I'm looking for a specification of C--. I can't find it on the > cminuscminus.org web site, and it's also not included in the release > tarball. Does anybody know where to get it? > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
