GHC(STG,Cmm,asm) illustrated

This is an illustrated document about the GHC(Glasgow Haskell Compiler).

Here is haskell_ghc_illustrated.pdf.

Contents

• Executable binary

• Compile steps

• Runtime System

• Development languages
  

• Machine layer/models

• STG-machine

• Heap object in STG-machine

• STG-machine evaluation

• Pointer tagging

• Thunk and update

• Allocate and free heap objects

• STG - C land interface
  

• Thread

• Thread context switch

• Creating main and sub threads

• Thread migration

• Heap and Threads

• Threads and GC

• Bound thread
  

• Spark
  

• Mvar

• Software transactional memory
  

• FFI

• IO and FFI

• IO manager
  

• Bootstrap
  

• Appendix

  • Boxity : boxed and unboxed
  • Levity : lifted and unlifted
  • Boxity and levity
    

• References