Re: [PATCH] Fix T5435_dyn_asm on mingw and T8832 on 32-bit architecture

2014-06-04 Thread Simon Marlow
Rather than marking T8832 as broken, we should just have the 32-bit output. I believe you can put it in the file T8832.stdout-ws-32. On 03/06/2014 07:06, transfuturist wrote: --- testsuite/tests/rts/all.T | 3 +++ testsuite/tests/simplCore/should_compile/all.T | 3 ++-

Re: [PATCH] Fix -unawareness of large-addresses on mingw (#8520)

2014-06-04 Thread Simon Marlow
I don't know what this does, and there doesn't seem to be any info in #8520 either. Could you add the patch to the ticket, and help us out by saying why this fixes the problem (and if possible, explain why it won't break anything else)? On 03/06/2014 07:06, transfuturist wrote: ---

Re: Expose Other Parsers for GHC API

2014-06-04 Thread Simon Marlow
I'd say (1) and (3) are good, but we typically don't do (2) in the compiler. On the other hand, if you want to export a clean and self-contained API for the parser from the GHC module, I think that would be great. There is GHC.parser for parsing a whole module, but I'm sure a more complete