the cmm pages on the wiki seem out of date

[Simon Marlow]

A quick answer is that I put some documentation at the top of 
compiler/cmm/CmmParse.y that explains the new syntax.  That should help 
you get to grips with the changes.

Cheers,
	Simon

On 06/04/13 13:48, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Simon Marlow is the man who will really know.  He's in the middle of getting to grips with Facebook but I'm sure he'll pop up soon.
>
> In general, yes please do update the wiki; thank you.
>
> Simon
>
> |  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On
> |  Behalf Of Edward Z. Yang
> |  Sent: 06 April 2013 09:12
> |  To: Carter Schonwald
> |  Cc: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> |  Subject: Re: the cmm pages on the wiki seem out of date
> |
> |  Yes, there were some pretty recent (as in, not present in 7.6) improvements
> |  to C-- syntax.  Updates would be much appreciated; you can probably figure out
> |  what the changes are by snooping the changelogs for compiler/cmm.
> |
> |  Edward
> |
> |  Excerpts from Carter Schonwald's message of Fri Apr 05 20:37:23 -0700 2013:
> |  > Hey all, I've been staring at the cmm primop code in ghc over the past week
> |  > to understand a number of things, and I was just today looking at the
> |  > current cmm documentation on the ghc wiki.
> |  >
> |  > specifically i've been looking at
> |  > https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/compiler/cmm/Cmm.hs
> |  > https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/compiler/cmm/CmmParse.y
> |  > and
> |  > https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/rts/PrimOps.cmm
> |  >
> |  > versus the wiki docs
> |  > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/CmmType
> |  >
> |  > it looks like CMM supports a nicer function definition convention than the
> |  > wiki implies.
> |  > (and presumably that also would hold  for the ffi for calling user written
> |  > cmm code too?)
> |  >
> |  >
> |  > If the wiki is out of date, i'm happy to make a first pass at trying to add
> |  > this info somewhere,
> |  >
> |  > thanks
> |  > -Carter
> |
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