Add documentation on heap-profile file format.
GHC docs currently lack of .hp file format specification. This trends people to make incorrect assumptions on file format. For example authors of hp2any-core package attemt to use haskell read function to read job title, but actually profiler outputs unescaped values between quotation marks, so approach fails when quoted string contains backslashes. I suggest to add more documentation on file format, especially how numeric values, strings and dates represented.
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Version | 7.4.2 |
Type | FeatureRequest |
TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
Priority | normal |
Resolution | Unresolved |
Component | Documentation |
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