Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-13 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Claus Reinke wrote: > > What happens after the merges? Does one maintain the branches > somehow, or does one lose the (in-)dependency information? Remember that a branch in git is just a name for a point in the revision graph. When you commit to a branch the name is updated to

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-12 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Claus Reinke wrote: > > In my understanding, the unorderedness of patch history in darcs is > there to make distributed repos easier (fewer constraints: same set of > patches, but not same order; can mix local commits and pulls from > various repos, no need for a central repo),

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: > > It also seems to make finding buggy patches rather hard. Have a look at `git bisect`. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT PORTLAND: NORTH BACKING WEST OR NORTHWEST, 5 TO 7, DECREASING 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6 L

Re: Unicode's greek lambda

2008-11-19 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Simon Marlow wrote: > > Tue Jan 16 16:11:00 GMT 2007 Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Remove special lambda unicode character, it didn't work anyway > Since lambda is a lower-case letter, it's debatable whether we want to > steal it to mean lambda in Haskell source.

RE: Re[2]: FFI: number of worker threads?

2006-06-21 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > New worker threads are spawned on as needed. You'll need as many of > them as you have simultaneously-blocked foreign calls. If you have 2000 > simultaneously-blocked foreign calls, you'll need 2000 OS threads to > support them, which probably won'

Re: Optimizations for mutable structures?

2005-12-07 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Robert Dockins wrote: > > What exactly are the semantics of C programs and why do we believe that > C compilers are correct? With regards to threading, the semantics are undefined and the compilers are subtly broken :-) Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.

Re: Optimizations for mutable structures?

2005-12-07 Thread Tony Finch
The following paper seems relevant to this thread. Although it's written in the context of C and C++, it's relevant to any language that combines pre-emptive threads and imperative features. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.pdf Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http:/

Re: jhc vs ghc and the surprising result involving ghc generated assembly.

2005-11-02 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, skaller wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 19:03 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > BTW, you shouldn't generate identifiers with leading underscores > > because they are reserved for the implementation. > > I AM the implementation :) You are not the C implementation. > Generated I

Re: GHCI crashes without error message

2005-04-27 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Lemmih wrote: > > From the Network documentation > (http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/network/Network.html): > " > SIGPIPE > > On Unix, when reading from a socket and the writing end is closed by > the remote client, the program is normally sent a SIGPIPE signal

Re: How can I make a counter without Monad?

2005-03-18 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Peter Davis wrote: > On 2005-03-16 02:52:39 -0800, Nicolas Oury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > instance Splittable Integer where > >split n = (2*n,2*n+1) > > I haven't played much with the Splittable class yet, but what would be wrong > with > > instance Splittable Integer

Re: Bug Tracking Systems?

1999-10-24 Thread Tony Finch
Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 03:55:39AM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote: > >> I'm leaning towards Debian at the moment, since it seems about the right >> level of complexity for the number of bugs we expect to maintain on it (i.e. >> not many :-). > >Seems good. G

RE: Preprocessor question

1999-07-13 Thread &#x27;Tony Finch'
Simon Marlow writes: > > We also like to get as clean a cpp as possible - if you go through gcc -E > you get a whole bunch of symbols defined, The -undef option gets rid of most of those. > and cpp gets passed the -lang-c flag (whatever that means, but it > looks pretty scary). The other possi

Re: Preprocessor question

1999-07-13 Thread Tony Finch
Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - mkdependHS and friends need a cpp that accepts input on > stdin, and files that don't end in ".c". That rules out > 'gcc -E'. Use `gcc -E -` then. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Winner, Internatio