Question about Haskell AST

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

My guess is that the base-package modules need language extensions to compile.  These extensions are specified in libraries/base/base.cabal (search for "extensions").  I don't think you are including these extensions in the dflags you are using.

Personally I think it'd be better if each base-package module specified its own extensions (using {-# LANGUAGE MagicHash #-} etc); then it'd be more self-describing.  But my (untested) guess is that you need to extend dflags with these extension flags to tell GHC how to compile them.

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jane Ren [mailto:j2ren at ucsd.edu]
| Sent: 24 January 2011 17:20
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones; glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| Subject: RE: Question about Haskell AST
| 
| Hi Simon,
| 
| That is exactly what I needed.  However, although I was able to get the
| patterns from the parse tree for test modules that I wrote, I was not able to
| get the parsetrees for the Haskell base library modules.
| For example, I am trying to use Data/List.hs as a test.  Here's the code
| 
|     defaultErrorHandler defaultDynFlags $ do
|       runGhc (Just libdir) $ do
|         dflags <- getSessionDynFlags
| 	setSessionDynFlags dflags
|         target <- guessTarget targetFile Nothing
|         setTargets [target]
|         load LoadAllTargets
|         modSum <- getModSummary $ mkModuleName "Data.List"
| 
| When I try this, I get
| "AstWalker: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
|   (GHC version 7.0.1 for x86_64-apple-darwin):
| 	lexical error at character 'i'
| "
| 
| It appears this error comes from "load LoadAllTargets"
| 
| Any ideas how I can get parse trees for the Haskell base modules?
| 
| Sure, I can augment that wiki page.
| 
| Thanks
| Jane
| ________________________________________
| From: Simon Peyton-Jones [simonpj at microsoft.com]
| Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:06 AM
| To: Jane Ren; glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| Subject: RE: Question about Haskell AST
| 
| desugarModule returns a GHC.DesugaredModule
| Inside a DesugaredModule is a field dm_core_module :: HscTypes.ModGuts
| Inside a ModGuts is a field mg_binds :: [CoreSyn.CoreBind]
| 
| And there are your bindings!  Does that tell you what you wanted to know?
| 
| Simon
| 
| PS: When you have it clear, would you like to augment the Wiki
| http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/As_a_library to describe what you learned?
| That way others can benefit.
| 
| | -----Original Message-----
| | From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-
| | users-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Jane Ren
| | Sent: 10 January 2011 17:21
| | To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| | Subject: Question about Haskell AST
| |
| | Hi,
| |
| | I need to be able to take a piece of Haskell source code and get an
| | simplified, typed, intermediate representation of the AST, which means I
| need
| | to use compiler/coreSyn/CoreSyn.lhs
| |
| | So I'm first trying to get the desguaredModule of the source code with
| |         ...
| |         modSum <- getModSummary $ mkModuleName "..."
| |         p <- parseModule modSum
| |         t <- typecheckModule p
| |         d <- desugarModule t
| |
| | Now I'm really stuck on figuring out how to connect the variable d of type
| | desugaredModule to compiler/coreSyn/CoreSyn.lhs to get Expr patterns like
| | App, Let, Case, etc.
| |
| | Also, is it correct to get the deguaredModule first?  At least CoreSyn.lhs
| | seems to suggest this.
| |
| | Any suggestions would be greatly apprecia
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