RE: A few Questions on OS X ghc-6.4.3 fix

2006-10-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Peter Tanski wrote: > On Oct 23, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: > >> I don't expect PAR to work in any branch of GHC, except in sources >> you get directly from the GPH folk. The PAR code in released >> versions of GHC isn't tested, certainly doesn't work, and probably >> doesn't compile e

Re: A few Questions on OS X ghc-6.4.3 fix

2006-10-23 Thread Peter Tanski
On Oct 23, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: I don't expect PAR to work in any branch of GHC, except in sources you get directly from the GPH folk. The PAR code in released versions of GHC isn't tested, certainly doesn't work, and probably doesn't compile either. Do you still do dev

Re: A few Questions on OS X ghc-6.4.3 fix

2006-10-23 Thread Simon Marlow
Peter Tanski wrote: I will look at these more closely later; if you are curious about any of them I will send the logs. On a side-note, I will make an effort to test ghc-6.4.3 and ghc-6.6 in Parallel (with PAR defined). Even though I have a uni-processor I have pvm version 3 installed an

Re: A few Questions on OS X ghc-6.4.3 fix

2006-10-21 Thread Peter Tanski
Hi Ian, On Oct 21, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote: Hi Peter, On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 05:56:30PM -0400, Peter Tanski wrote: Sorry for yet another typo: #pragma options align=4 should have been: #pragma options align=power A definition might be: #if powerpc_HOST_ARCH #define ALIGN_POWE

Re: A few Questions on OS X ghc-6.4.3 fix

2006-10-21 Thread Peter Tanski
Simon, Many thanks for your informative reply! Please note my other responses below. -Pete On Oct 19, 2006, at 5:30 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Peter Tanski wrote: (1) how do I obtain the latest 6.4.3 release? It is no longer on CVS, It is in CVS. I tagged it this morning, so you can che

Re: A few Questions on OS X ghc-6.4.3 fix

2006-10-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi Peter, On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 05:56:30PM -0400, Peter Tanski wrote: > > Sorry for yet another typo: > #pragma options align=4 > > should have been: > #pragma options align=power > > A definition might be: > > #if powerpc_HOST_ARCH > #define ALIGN_POWER "#pragma options align=power" > #def

Re: A few Questions on OS X ghc-6.4.3 fix

2006-10-21 Thread Peter Tanski
Simon, Sorry for yet another typo: #pragma options align=4 should have been: #pragma options align=power A definition might be: #if powerpc_HOST_ARCH #define ALIGN_POWER "#pragma options align=power" #define ALIGN_POWER_RESET "#pragma options align=reset" #else #define ALIGN_POWER #define ALIG

RE: A few Questions on OS X ghc-6.4.3 fix

2006-10-19 Thread Simon Marlow
Peter Tanski wrote: > (1) how do I obtain the latest 6.4.3 release? It is no longer on > CVS, It is in CVS. I tagged it this morning, so you can check out the tag ghc-6-4-3 from CVS. Alternatively, you can grab the 6.4.3 source distribution from here; http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.4.3 > (2)