Duncan Coutts: > Found another bug that surfaces when we compile c2hs with ghc-6.12. > > By default text files are now read in the locale encoding rather than > just ASCII. This means we can (and do) get characters over 255. The > behaviour is that c2hs goes into an infinite loop and consumes all the > memory on your machine (in particular this happens with some files in > gtk2hs). > > Unfortunately the 255 assumption is pretty strongly wired into the c2hs > lexer. From Lexer.hs: > > -- * Unicode posses a problem as the character domain becomes too big > -- for using arrays to represent transition tables and even sparse > -- structures will posse a significant overhead when character ranges > -- are naively represented. So, it might be time for finite maps again. > > The short term solution is to set the text mode to be ASCII. In the > longer term we might want to replace the .chs lexer and parser, like we > did already for the C parser.
Yes, that make sense. At the time, unicode support in GHC was a still far away. Manuel _______________________________________________ C2hs mailing list C2hs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/c2hs
