On 07/08/14 16:01, Johan Tibell wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think doing the comparison with Integer is the right fix.  Relying on Word
being big enough for these things is technically wrong because we might be
cross-compiling from a smaller word size.

That sounds like an easier fix and I will try that. Unfortunately
working with Integers means lots of our convenience functions, such as
wordsToBytes, go out the window, as the all work on Byte/WordOff.
Here's an example that now gets more annoying:

     shouldInlinePrimOp dflags NewArrayOp [(CmmLit (CmmInt n _)), init]
       | wordsToBytes dflags (fromInteger n) <= maxInlineAllocSize dflags =

Maybe wordsToBytes should be overloaded on Integral (with specialisations).

Cheers,
Simon

Most of our array primops are likely* still wrong, as the code that
generates them uses Int everywhere. Still also sounds like a problem
for cross-compiling.

* In some cases we might be lucky and the Int is never introspected
any we just look at the bits (i.e. pretend it's a Word) when we
generate code.


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