openbsd-ports/lang/ghc/pkg/DESCR-main
kili 87a3f71582 Update to 6.6.1. With helpful hints from Don Stewart and espie@.
Thanks to all the testers and to steven@, who was so kind to
build the HC files for bootstrapping on amd64.
2007-07-21 17:14:57 +00:00

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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and
interactive environment for the functional language Haskell. Highlights:
* GHC supports the entire Haskell 98 language plus a wide variety of
extensions.
* GHC works on several platforms including Windows and most varieties of
Unix, and several different processor architectures. There are detailed
instructions for porting GHC to a new platform.
* GHC has extensive optimisation capabilities, including inter-module
optimisation.
* GHC compiles Haskell code either by using an intermediate C compiler
(GCC), or by generating native code on some platforms. The interactive
environment compiles Haskell to bytecode, and supports execution of
mixed bytecode/compiled programs.
* Profiling is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of
heap profiling.
* GHC comes with a wide range of libraries.
The following flavors are available:
- native_bootstrap (PSEUDO_FLAVOR):
Use an already installed ghc for bootstrapping (default is
to boot from .hc files). If there's no preinstalled GHC, this
may lead to GHC being built twice!