[Haskell-cafe] Using GHC API to compile Haskell sources to CORE and CORE to binary

[Wojciech Danilo]

Hello David, thank you for your response! :)
I've got few questions regarding it:
1) Does it mean there are no datatypes dedicated to "a core language" ?
2) All passes are transforming AST -> AST? If so, what does the function
`compileToCoreModule` does?
3) Additional - is there any subset of the AST that we can call "CORE" ?
4) Do all the documentation (like this one:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/CoreSynType)
should be considered obsolete?

All the best,
Wojciech

Wed Jan 28 2015 at 3:55:12 AM użytkownik David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com>
napisał:

> There used to be an external representation of core intended to be
> used for such things. It was recently removed because it had gotten
> stale and no one wanted to take responsibility for maintaining it. So
> at the moment, Core is really just an AST, not a proper language, and
> you'll have to hack GHC if you want to inject it.
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Wojciech Danilo
> <wojciech.danilo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All! :)
> > Recently I've came across a problem and hopefully you could help me with
> it.
> > Basically I and some people here are running a startup and we have
> created a
> > language for processing images. This language has 2 interchangeable
> > representations - textual and visual, dataflow one.
> >
> > Right now we are compiling it to haskell sources, but we want to move
> over
> > GHC CORE. Getting into GHC has a high learning curve, as far as we see,
> and
> > we would be very thankfull for any help with a minimal working example of
> > compiling haskell sources to CORE and then CORE to binaries. I've posted
> > couple days ago a detailed question on StackOverflow, here:
> >
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28059669/using-ghc-
> api-to-compile-haskell-sources-to-core-and-core-to-binary
> >
> >
> > I would be very thankful for any help or hints!
> > All the best,
> > Wojciech
> >
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