I can provide help on #8834 because I know what was done in the commit that introduced the bug. But I don't have Windows so I'm afraid we still need someone to do the actual work.
Janek Dnia środa, 12 marca 2014, Simon Peyton Jones napisał: > Friends > The status of the GHC 7.8 release is here > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8/RC2. Alas we are > currently stalled on #8870, #8834: we are getting seg-faults on Windows. > (For example, on my laptop, the stage2 compiler seg-faults when compiling > some (but not all) files. Although few people develop GHC on Windows, many > people *use* GHC on Windows, so we can't really release in this state. We > need help! Austin is trying, but it's all working on his Windows build. > He's trying to get more machines to see if he can reproduce the failure > there. Does anyone feel able to help? Even git-bisecting to find the > offending commit would be a huge help. In principle I can do that (at two > hours per bisection) but I was defeated by an out-of-sync Haddock. I need > to know how to remove Haddock from the build altogether. But others are > far more skilled than me. On #8834 Simon M speculates that we may have the > callee-saves register wrong on Win64. Does anyone feel up to looking into > that? Until we find what's going on, 7.8 is stalled. > Thanks! > Simon _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
