<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I don't think Prim.hs exists (anymore).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Depending on how you installed GHC, you might have the Haddock doc files locally, which includes Prim.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or, you can :browse GHC.Prim in GHCi.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or, you can look at compiler/prelude/primops.txt.pp which generates the term-level definitions in Prim.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or, you can look at compiler/prelude/TysPrim.hs which "generates" the type-level definitions in Prim.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope this helps!</div><div class="">Richard<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 19, 2018, at 11:53 AM, Abhiroop Sarkar <<a href="mailto:asiamgenius@gmail.com" class="">asiamgenius@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Is it possible to view the types generated in the GHC.Prim module on my local machine?</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">The commentary[1] states that it is a virtual module and a source file including dummy declarations are available in this location: `<span style="color:rgb(102,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline" class="">libraries/base/GHC/Prim.hs</span>`, however, upon downloading and building the latest GHC codebase I could not find this dummy file on my machine. Do I have to modify my Makefile somehow to generate these dummy types?</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">For building, I have followed the instructions mentioned here[2] and set `BuildFlavour = devel2`.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Thanks,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Abhiroop Sarkar</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">[1]<a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/PrimOps" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" class="">https://ghc.haskell.org/<wbr class="">trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/<wbr class="">PrimOps</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">[2]<a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" class="">https://ghc.haskell.org/<wbr class="">trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers</a></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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