How to load & parse an HI (interface) file?

[Saurabh Nanda]

GHC has a "--show-iface" option which pretty prints the ".hi" file. Not
> sure if it works for your use-case but it may be easier to parse the text
> displayed by this option.
>


>From https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/IfaceFiles
-- 

> This textual format is not particularly designed for machine parsing.
Doing so might be possible, but if you
> want to read GHC interface files you are almost certainly better off
using the GHC API
<https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/API> to do so.

That's the reason why I started investigating the GHC API.

-- Saurabh.
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