[Haskell-cafe] Haskell interface file (.hi) format?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Nov 29, 2007, at 17:45 , Rob Hoelz wrote:

> Does anyone know if/where I can find a specification for the .hi files
> generated by GHC?  I ask because I want to write an omni-completion
> plugin for Vim to make Haskell hacking a bit nicer.

There isn't one.  However, you can use a sufficiently recent GHC  
(works back to 6.6, dunno how much earlier) to dump it in a readable  
format:

   ghc --show-iface foo.hi

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