RE: core lint warnings when doing perf build of 7.8 tip

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
No. It’s just an infelicity I have never gotten around to removing Simon From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Carter Schonwald Sent: 04 April 2014 21:43 To: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: core lint warnings when doing perf build of 7.8 tip should i be concerned about

GHC HQ on Launchpad

2014-04-04 Thread Edward Z . Yang
Hello all, I've created a GHC team on Launchpad to manage the code imports and build recipes https://launchpad.net/~ghc Why? I recently was playing around with Launchpad's build recipes service, and realized that this could be another helpful source of builds for GHC (resulting in proper Ubuntu pa

core lint warnings when doing perf build of 7.8 tip

2014-04-04 Thread Carter Schonwald
should i be concerned about these? *** Core Lint warnings : in result of Simplifier *** {-# LINE 139 "compiler/deSugar/Check.lhs #-}: Warning: [RHS of Check.untidy :: Check.NeedPars -> Check.WarningPat -> Check.WarningPat] INLINE binder is (non-rule) loop breake

RE: ghc-7.8-rc2 in -O2 mode eats all stack and RAM on pandoc-citeproc / highlighting-kate

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Sergei SpecConstr is too aggressive: it sometimes blows up the program badly and we have no good solution. See Trac #7898, #7068, #7944, #5550, #8836. I notice that the latter three are actually fixed in 7.8, so worth trying that. If it still fails, do add instructions to reproduce to one of

Re: Windows build broken

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Marlow
Sorry, probably my fault. I've attached a patch that should fix it, which should get you going while I validate. Cheers, Simon On 04/04/2014 16:14, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: Can someone fix this? This is breakage on Windows. It was fine yesterday. Simon cc1.exe: warnings being treated as e

Re: Windows build broken

2014-04-04 Thread Austin Seipp
Looks like 5d7f59018703b94ebfe96cbef5574ec396a1c051 is the culprit. Simon M, perhaps you can look at this? I'm tied up in the 7.8 branch at the moment, but I can revert it temporarily at least (I imagine the fix is easy enough - if you can't get to it soon, I'll revert and fix it when I get a chan

Windows build broken

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Can someone fix this? This is breakage on Windows. It was fine yesterday. Simon cc1.exe: warnings being treated as errors rts\Linker.c: In function 'loadArchive': rts\Linker.c:2631:17: error: passing argument 1 of 'strlen' from incompatible pointer type c:\code\head\inplace\mingw\bin\.

RE: Haskell Support on Windows (Simon Peyton Jones)

2014-04-04 Thread Tamar Christina
I've been meaning to start contributing to ghc for windows for years but never got around to it since I don't know what I could contribute with. I've compiled various 6.x and early 7.x versions before and mostly did small modifications for my own testing. I've been away from Haskell for a few m