Re: Why align all pinned array payloads on 16 bytes?

2018-10-22 Thread Ömer Sinan Ağacan
Thanks for all the answers. Another surprising thing about the pinned object allocation primops is that the aligned allocator allows alignment to bytes, rather than to words (the documentation doesn't say whether it's words or bytes, but it can be seen from the code that it's actually aligning to

Re: Treatment of unknown pragmas

2018-10-22 Thread Neil Mitchell
> I'm trying to view the pragma question from the perspective of setting a > precedent for other tools. If a dozen Haskell tools were to approach us > tomorrow and ask for similar treatment to HLint it's clear that > hardcoding pragma lists in the lexer would be unsustainable. Why? Making the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1 released

2018-10-22 Thread Jens Petersen
On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 22:36, Ben Gamari wrote: > On September 24, 2018 2:09:13 AM CDT, Jens Petersen > wrote: > >I have built 8.6.1 for Fedora 27, 28, 29, Rawhide, and EPEL7 in: > >https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.6.1/ > >The repo also includes latest cabal-install. >

Using GHC Core as a Language Target

2018-10-22 Thread Ara Adkins
Hey All, I was chatting to SPJ about the possibility of using GHC Core + the rest of the GHC compilation pipeline as a target for a functional language, and he mentioned that asking here would likely be more productive when it comes to the GHC API. I'm wondering where the best place would be for