StgExpr AST

[Victor Nazarov]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Chris Nicholls
<chrisnicholls1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to get access to the STG syntax tree of a program using
> the GHC api? i.e. a function that returns something of type `StgExpr'
> that can be used in a way similar to this:
>
> example module =
>     defaultErrorHandler defaultDynFlags $ do
>       runGhc (Just libdir) $ do
>         dflags <- getSessionDynFlags
>         setSessionDynFlags dflags
>         target <- guessTarget targetFile Nothing
>         setTargets [target]
>         load LoadAllTargets
>         modSum <- getModSummary $ mkModuleName module
>         p <- parseModule modSum
>         t <- typecheckModule p
>         d <- desugarModule t
>         c <- return $ coreModule d
>         s <- coreToStg c
>         return s
>

I've written Haskell to Javascript translator using GHC API. And I've
ended with the following code to access STG:

https://github.com/sviperll/ghcjs/blob/master/src/Compiler/Main.hs

-- 
Victor Nazarov