Re: Staying alive

1999-10-06 Thread Michael Weber
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:04:03 +0200, Sven Panne wrote: Michael Weber wrote: marshalListN :: Int - [a] - IO Addr I don't see a reason for the duplication of length information, e.g. what should `marshalListN 1000 [1,2,3]' mean? And `marshalListN 2 [1,2,3]' is equivalent

Re: Staying alive

1999-10-05 Thread Michael Weber
[My apologies: some day - I promise - I'll learn to choose the right mailing list... 8-] On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 13:45:43 +0200, Sven Panne wrote: [micro-marshalling] I know Manuel's code already and the one H/Direct produces. Has anybody else some FFI-related code and/or suggestions? This

Re: Grumbles about building GHC from the CVS repository

1999-09-03 Thread Michael Weber
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 14:33:57 +0200, George Russell wrote: (1) The repository is very puritanical about having to have autoconf and happy installed. Since the chances of my wanting to muck about with the configuration file/GHC parsers are nill, why not include the configure

GHC 4.04pl1 Debian packages available

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Weber
Hi! subject says it all... :-) They packages for the unstable distribution are available at: http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Software/Haskell/ or via APT installation method: just add deb http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Software/Haskell/debian unstable/ deb-src

Dynamic.lhs and Distributed Programming

1999-09-17 Thread Michael Weber
Hi! Is there any more information floating around wrt. the Dynamic extensions of GHC (or hugs)? The lib-docs say, it may be usable in Distributed Programming, but currently I have no idea how to transport values of type Dynamic over some kind of net connection to another instance of a program

Re: NON-daemonic forking

1999-08-20 Thread Michael Weber
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 15:34:51 +0200, George Russell wrote: Einar Karlson, my predecessor, asked for daemonic forking as for Java. In Java you have ordinary threads and daemonic threads; the process ends when only daemonic threads are still running. The GHC team seem to have gone ahead

Re: Using another gcc, linker, and so on

1999-08-12 Thread Michael Weber
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:39:06 +0200, George Russell wrote: It would be nice if the ghc command had options which made it call a different hsc/gcc/ld than the one hardwired by the installation procedure into the Perl script. Currently I am playing games with my PATH to achieve this effect.

Re: Preprocessor question

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Weber
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 03:26:27 -0700, Simon Marlow wrote: Use `gcc -E -` then. Good point :-) nearly..., but we have to use '$CPP -x c-header' which would expand to 'gcc -E -x c-header', otherwise gcc wants to link those temporary *.lpp files :-( IMHO '-x c-header' just means to gcc:

Re: Preprocessor question

1999-07-13 Thread Michael Weber
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 17:47:27 +0900, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote: Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, It isn't strictly speaking hardcoded, it's set up when you configure a binary distribution. So if you move gcc or install a new version, you need to re-install ghc. Yes, and

Preprocessor question

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Weber
Hi! Please, can somebody explain, why the preprocessor is hardcoded in the GHC perl scripts? IIRC ghc (the perlscript itself) doesn't even reference $RAWCPP. mkdependHS and hscpp do, but why an absolute path and this obscure "-iprefix" parameter? Again, "-iwithprefix" is never used... Would it

Re: GHC 4.04.19990916 produces coredumping executable

1999-12-05 Thread Michael Weber
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 16:35:42 +, Ian Jackson wrote: I'm using a GHC binary package from Debian GNU/Linux, binary package version 4.04.19990916-0slink1 built by Michael Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]. As soon as I get it to compile I'll try a compiler installation I built myself

ANNOUNCE: GHC Happy now officially part of Debian

1999-12-07 Thread Michael Weber
The subject says it all, just wanted to show-off a bit ;-) Thanks to Aaron Van Couwenberghe for sponsoring the packages... However, I'll keep the Haskell page up running, usually, you'll find new versions some days earlier here... Cheers, Michael -- Lehrstuhl-Gärtnerei Michael

Re: Segmentation Fault

2000-01-18 Thread Michael Weber
-files-too ... Cheers, Michael -- Lehrstuhl-Gärtnerei Michael Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lehrstuhl für Informatik II RWTH Aachen WWW: http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Software/Haskell/

Re: 4.06 binary

2000-01-31 Thread Michael Weber
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Re: GHC include files

2000-03-01 Thread Michael Weber
the messages... -- Lehrstuhl-Gärtnerei Michael Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lehrstuhl für Informatik II RWTH Aachen WWW: http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Software/Haskell/

ANNOUNCE: new GHC snapshot for Debian available

2000-05-08 Thread Michael Weber
s, Michael -- Lehrstuhl-Kinderkrippe Michael Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lehrstuhl für Informatik II RWTH Aachen WWW: http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Software/Haskell/

strangeness with `Exception.tryAll'

2000-05-08 Thread Michael Weber
tement? Is there another possible reason for this behaviour? (ghc-4.07, CVS version 2000/05/04) [Sorry, but I was unable to find a small example, that triggers this "bug". Things like (tryAll (runST (return (error "BANG" work as expected] Cheers, Michael -- Lehrstuhl-Kind

Re: strangeness with `Exception.tryAll'

2000-05-08 Thread 'Michael Weber'
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 07:30:18 -0700, Simon Marlow wrote: If you embed the (error "BANG") inside a data structure, then it can indeed excape from the tryAll because seq only evaluates to WHNF. Thanks a bunch, that pointed me in the right direction! tryAll (runST (return (error

Re: Mutable Arrays

2000-05-09 Thread Michael Weber
and MutableArrays. - remove the MutableArray interface from hslibs/lang/MutableArray. This module will go away soon - Andy, don't bother porting it to Hugs. Cheers, Michael -- Lehrstuhl-Kinderkrippe Michael Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lehrstuhl für Informatik II RWTH Aachen WWW

Re: GHC Version numbers (was: RE: 4.07 release candidate snapshot ava ilable)

2000-06-19 Thread Michael Weber
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 04:38:21 -0700, Simon Marlow wrote: Ok, here's my proposal for the version numbering issue. I think we should bite the bullet and fix the numbering scheme to something sensible now, even though it means changing version 4.07 to be called 4.08. Any objections?

ANNOUNCEMENT: hMPI [HaskellMPI] 0.9.0 available

2000-07-20 Thread Michael Weber
[Xposted to ghc-users haskell mailing lists] Hi! I'd like to announce (finally!) the first OFFICIAL PRE-release :) of hMPI, a Haskell binding for a message passing interface conforming to the MPI 1.1/1.2 standard. It's available from

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: hMPI [HaskellMPI] 0.9.0 available

2000-07-21 Thread Michael Weber
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 21:08:21 -0400, Benjamin Leon Russell wrote: Do you have any plans on making a Windows 9x/NT/2000-compatible version anytime soon? Well, unfortunately, I don't have access to a Windoze box with a GHC installed[1], so I just had no chance of testing it. Therefore, I

Re: Installing on Red Hat Linux

2000-07-29 Thread Michael Weber
"Bill Halchin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, [...] I think it was "gpm". [...] ~~~ On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 20:44:19 +1000, Manuel M . T . Chakravarty wrote: The painless approch is to install the gpm package that ghc

Re: Compiler error: AClass

2000-07-31 Thread Michael Weber
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 12:23:19 -0400, Kirsten R. Chevalier wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile a program using GHC 4.08 on a Linux system, and I'm getting an error simply consisting of "AClass", with no output files from the compiler. When I compile with -v, I get the following output: The

Re: Buildung documentation on FreeBSD

2000-09-09 Thread Michael Weber
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:23:31 +0200, Volker Stolz wrote: When configuring a recent ghc, ./configure complains about not finding DOCBOOK - which is no wonder as it keeps looking in strange hardcoded places like /usr/lib. Could someone please enlighten me about what changes would be

Re: hslibs / posix library features??

2000-09-19 Thread Michael Weber
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:04:55 -0700, Sigbjorn Finne wrote: POSIX.1 only defines #defined constants upto B38400, so anything beyond that is non-standard [...] ... which does not necessarily imply, that GHC is not going to support it ;-) Marcus Shawcroft wrote: Can these missing rates be

shared libgmp2 (was: Re: GHC RPMs for RedHat 7)

2000-10-19 Thread Michael Weber
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 17:24:04 +0200, George Russell wrote: On this subject, where am I to get the libgmp2.a required by 4.08.1 (on Linux anyway). I tried compiling the very latest version of GMP but it only produced a libgmp.a file. Is that the same? Everyone and their brothers is

Re: shared libgmp2 (was: Re: GHC RPMs for RedHat 7)

2000-10-19 Thread Michael Weber
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 17:39:54 +0200, Michael Weber wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 17:24:04 +0200, George Russell wrote: On this subject, where am I to get the libgmp2.a required by 4.08.1 (on Linux anyway). I tried compiling the very latest version of GMP but it only produced a libgmp.a

Re: Building ghci

2001-04-12 Thread Michael Weber
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 18:35:23 +0200, Wolfhard Bu wrote: Hello, i just built and installed ghc 5.00 from the sources with the help from ghc 4.08.2. ghci responds with 'ghc-5.00: not built for interactive use'. just rebuild ghc-5.00 with itself again. Cheers, M/ -- /~\ ASCII ribbon |

Re: how to implement timeouts for IO operations?

2001-04-18 Thread Michael Weber
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 21:36:04 +0200, Johannes Waldmann wrote: A slightly related point, I was having difficulties with TimeDiff values - I got negative tdPicosecs sometimes, and some functions (show) even dumped core. Are such problems known (I am using a binary ghc-4.08)? For the

Re: The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.00

2001-04-22 Thread Michael Weber
The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.00 We are pleased to announce a new major release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 5.00. The source distribution is freely available via the World-Wide

make maintainer-clean (was: Re: The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.00)

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Weber
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 15:00:08 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 00:15:39 +1000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze: The source tar ball misses the configure scripts (it has the `configure.in's, but the source tar ball should be autoconf'ed, shouldn't

Re: The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.00

2001-04-27 Thread Michael Weber
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 16:44:54 +0200, Michael Weber wrote: The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.00 We are pleased to announce a new major release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 5.00

Re: Two Times [was Re: Happy and Macros (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Happy 1.10 released)]

2001-05-12 Thread Michael Weber
* Marc van Dongen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-05-11T10:52+0100]: Manuel M. T. Chakravarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [received message twice] Am I just the only one or does everybody receive messages posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] twice? I find it a bit (I know I am

Re: Patch ghci to recognize :q!

2001-06-27 Thread Michael Weber
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:32:47 +0200, Volker Stolz wrote: Maybe I'm the only one who happens to type :q! to leave ghci all the time, maybe not. Would somebody object to a patch which will cause ghci to quit on :q!? Oh, and I want C-x C-c ... and C-K Q while we're at it... ;-p (No, this is

Re: Problem with .ghci (fwd)

2001-07-10 Thread Michael Weber
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 19:54:11 +0100, Chris Webb wrote: Jose Emilio Labra Gayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, if I write my own .ghci, I obtain: [...] *** WARNING: ./.ghci is writable by someone else, IGNORING! If doing this annoys you too much, I guess you could easily fix the

Re: GHC Installation Location

2001-10-25 Thread Michael Weber
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:18:33 -0700, Ashley Yakeley wrote: At 2001-10-25 03:01, Simon Marlow wrote: I've wondered at various times in the past whether there ought to be a link from /usr/local/includes/ghc to /usr/local/lib/ghc-5.02/includes. Won't help, my GHC is installed at

Fwd: Can I install HOpenGL in Windows?

2001-10-25 Thread Michael Weber
* Denver [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-10-26T01:25+1000]: Please help. I would like to use HOpenGL within Windows, so I wanted to ask whether it was possible, and if it is, I would like to request for help. Any help greatly appreciated. Hi! I'm sorry, I don't know much about the

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 5.04 released

2002-07-15 Thread Michael Weber
on ;) Why not? I'm sure Michael Weber is working on it even as we speak... ETA is next weekend. Cheers, Michael ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Re: unsafePerformIO and IORefs

2002-11-18 Thread Michael Weber
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:36:05AM -0800, Hal Daume III wrote: You can't. CSE (common subexpression elimination) will replace any occurances of 'newState 0' in a function body with the same value. In short: don't use upIO :) Sorry, cannot resist to pour a little salt onto the wound :)

Re: re-opening a closed stdin?

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Weber
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:09:01AM -, Simon Marlow wrote: It is nice, but it introduces too many problems. What happens to any I/O errors encountered by the lazy I/O? They have to be discarded, which means you can't effectively use lazy I/O for robust applications anyway.

Re: re-opening a closed stdin?

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Weber
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:22:56AM -0500, Dean Herington wrote: Is even the following example from the library report (section 11.8.2) problematic? import System import Char( toUpper ) main = do [f1,f2] - getArgs s - readFile f1 writeFile f2 (map toUpper s)

jadetex (was: Re: reaping fd's and flushing buffers)

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Weber
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:37:03AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:13:27AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: Thanks, I've started brewing up a tree and I'll take that for a spin when it's done cooking. ouch! jadetex needs an upgrade (ghc debian

Re: More problems compiling GHC on Mac OS X

2003-03-17 Thread Michael Weber
* Kirsten Chevalier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-03-17T01:09-0800]: configure says: checking for sendfile in sys/sendfile.h... no checking for sendfile in sys/socket.h... no I tried building again just now, just to be sure, and still got the same error message (Sendfile.hsc:19: Variable not in

Re: Faster, GHC, and floating point.

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Weber
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-10-21T11:39+0200]: Now, Haskell takes 4.57 the time of C++ (cygwin gnu C++ with -O2). Did you add the SSE options etc. to the C++ program as well when comparing Haskell vs. C++? What is the SSE speedup of C++ vs. C++/with SSE? Cheers, Michael