Tool for minimizing examples

2016-10-25 Thread Eric Crockett
Devs: as I'm sure you know, the hardest part of reporting a GHC bug is finding a minimal example that triggers the bug. When I initially trigger a bug in my large code base, my workflow is something like: 1. write a driver that triggers the bug 2. do manual dead code elimination by removing

[Help needed] GHC HCAR Submission Contributors

2016-10-25 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, Haskell Communities and Activities Report submission season is once again upon us. If you are receiving this message then you have a major contribution listed on the GHC 8.2 status page and therefore should have a corresponding entry in GHC's HCAR submission. I've collected some

setnumcapabilities001 failure

2016-10-25 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi Simon, It seems that setnumcapabilities001 still occassionally fails, although this time by a different mode: https://phabricator.haskell.org/harbormaster/build/14485/?l=100 Cheers, - Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ ghc-devs

Re: New home for the perf.haskell.org builder wanted

2016-10-25 Thread Ryan Trinkle
Hi Joachim and Sebastian, I think it would make sense to get a machine like that with Haskell.org funds. My company (Obsidian) would be happy to host it physically and cover internet/power/etc., although our facilities aren't too fancy (no redundant connections or anything like that). Best,

Re: GHC 8.0.2 status

2016-10-25 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Hi > > Where are we on this? 12479 was last updated 5 days ago and it is not clear > who has the next action. > Unfortunately The merge of #12479 took longer than expected and soon thereafter yet another terrible bug has reared its ugly head.

Re: New home for the perf.haskell.org builder wanted

2016-10-25 Thread Ryan Trinkle
Hi Joachim and Sebastian, I think it would make sense to get a machine like that with Haskell.org funds. My company (Obsidian) would be happy to host it physically and cover internet/power/etc., although our facilities aren't too fancy (no redundant connections or anything like that). Best,