RE: Q: Threads in GHC's RTS

[Simon Marlow]

> That's what you get with unsafePerformIO; we've even
> added a {-# NOINLINE blockingSem #-} pragma for exactly this reason.
> (Doubtless undocumented.)

ahem.  Quote from the 4.02 documentation at
http://research.microsoft.com/users/t-simonm/ghc/Docs/latest/users_guide/use
rs_guide-4.html#ss4.2

  "Incedentally, there's also a NOINLINE pragma which does the obvious
thing."

:-)

(And the current documentation in the CVS tree has full descriptions of all
the various pragmas).

Simon