Re: Module that causes GHC-7.8 to exhaust memory when -O2 is on

2014-03-30 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk wrote: On 29/03/14 17:31, David Fox wrote: The repository at http://src.seereason.com/o2bug contains a package that causes GHC-7.8.1 (rc2?) to exhaust 16GB of RAM and die when the -O2 flag is turned on. I

Module that causes GHC-7.8 to exhaust memory when -O2 is on

2014-03-29 Thread David Fox
The repository at http://src.seereason.com/o2bug contains a package that causes GHC-7.8.1 (rc2?) to exhaust 16GB of RAM and die when the -O2 flag is turned on. I haven't been able to simplify it very much, almost any change to JSON.Render causes it to start working properly. I did get it to fail

Re: GHC error message on type mismatch

2013-11-07 Thread David Fox
It *is* sometimes difficult to remember that my expectations and I are not part of this equation - it might be a better prompt to say something like type mismatch between function parameter and supplied value: function parameter type: A supplied value type: B On Thu, Nov 7, 2013

Re: GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving

2011-12-27 Thread David Fox
My guess is that Americans were involved. On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Matthew Farkas-Dyck strake...@gmail.comwrote: Just of curiosity, why is it spelt with a z? Is it spelt thus in Scottish English? I thought that generalised is written throughout Great Britain. Cheers, MFD

Re: Should GHC default to -O1 ?

2011-11-08 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com wrote: On the haskell-cafe as well as the beginners mailing lists, there frequently (for some value of frequent) are posts where the author inquires about a badly performing programme, in the form of stack

Re: Should GHC default to -O1 ?

2011-11-08 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/11/2011 14:31, Daniel Fischer wrote: On the haskell-cafe as well as the beginners mailing lists, there frequently (for some value of frequent) are posts where the author inquires about a badly performing programme,

Re: Compiling using gmake

2011-11-07 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Christian Brolin cbro...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I try to set-up a gnu makefile for compiling Haskell programs with GHC. I want to generate dependencies automatically and I want to put my object (.o) files in a binary specifc directories to be able to compile

Re: Use -V0 causes space to leak?

2011-09-16 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Neil Davies semanticphilosop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have some long running (multi-gigabit, multi-cpu hour) programs and as part of trying to speed up I thought I would set the -V0 flag - when I did this there was a slow space leak that caused it to blow the

Can't pull http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc

2010-11-15 Thread David Fox
I can neither darcs pull nor darcs get the repository at http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc - it just hangs indefinitely. Anyone else having this problem? -david ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org

Re: new-www

2010-11-08 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Brent Yorgey byor...@seas.upenn.edu wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:08:50PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: People, what is, in short, the relation between  www.haskell.org   and new-www.haskell.org ? Which one do I need to use for looking for the Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] change in overlapping instance behavior between GHC 6.12 and GHC 7 causes compilation failure

2010-11-03 Thread David Fox
I would love to know the answer to this. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jeremy Shaw jer...@n-heptane.com wrote: Hello, I have a module, XMLGenerator, which has some overlapping instances. I have a second module, Test, which imports that module and also adds some more overlapping instances.

Re: making 7.01-pre

2010-10-30 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Serge D. Mechveliani mech...@botik.ru wrote: Dear GHC developers, I am testing this fresh  ghc-7.0.0.20101028 on  Debian Linux, i386-family. Making it from source by  ghc-6.12.3  is all right. Then, making it from source by itself reports (here I abbreviate

Re: making 7.01-pre

2010-10-30 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:52 AM, David Fox dds...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Serge D. Mechveliani mech...@botik.ru wrote: Dear GHC developers, I am testing this fresh  ghc-7.0.0.20101028 on  Debian Linux, i386-family. Making it from source by  ghc-6.12.3  is all

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 1

2010-09-28 Thread David Fox
I'm seeing errors like this in various places, which I guess are coming from the new type checker: Data/Array/Vector/Prim/BUArr.hs:663:3:     Couldn't match type `s' with `s3'   because this skolem type variable would escape: `s3'     This skolem is bound by the polymorphic type `forall s. ST

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 1

2010-09-28 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:10 PM, David Fox dds...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing errors like this in various places, which I guess are coming from the new type checker: Data/Array/Vector/Prim/BUArr.hs:663:3:     Couldn't

Re: Version 7.0.1-rc1 bootstrapping

2010-09-27 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/09/10 17:52, David Fox wrote: In order to bootstrap with the compiler we are using, I had to rename the function at line 13 of compiler/utils/Exception.hs from mask_ to mask. Sorry I didn't reply

Version 7.0.1-rc1 bootstrapping

2010-09-26 Thread David Fox
In order to bootstrap with the compiler we are using, I had to rename the function at line 13 of compiler/utils/Exception.hs from mask_ to mask. Sorry I didn't reply to the announcement, I just found out I wasn't subscribed to this list. (I also had to change 613 to 614, but this won't affect