Re: nofib comparisons between 7.0.4, 7.4.2, 7.6.1, and 7.6.2

2013-02-04 Thread Austin Seipp
I'm +1 for this. Eyal Lotem and I were just discussing this on IRC a few minutes ago, and he suffered a rather large (~25%) performance hit when upgrading to 7.6.1, which is unfortunate. Committers are typically very good about recording nofib results in their commit and being

Re: GHC 7.8 release?

2013-02-07 Thread Austin Seipp
This is a slight tangent but, I am always somewhat confused about the release schedule. When reading this, the basic decision seems to come down to when do we cut a release, taking into account factors like reliability/bugs/support/community/other stuff like that. So, IMO, perhaps one thing

Re: Error while compiling cross-compiler

2013-03-10 Thread Austin Seipp
RPi cross-compiler. I commented them out of ghc.mk as a temporary measure, but didn't get around to finding a proper solution. Cheers, Simon On 03/08/13 20:19, Austin Seipp wrote: 7.6.2 doesn't really support cross compilation. The bulk of the work has been done in the git repository

Re: LLVM 3.2 failure

2013-03-14 Thread Austin Seipp
I was able to reproduce Geoffrey's failure on Mac OS X 10.8, with LLVM 3.2. The stage2 compiler eventually segfaults (Segmentation Fault 11) during the build process after being compiled successfully with stage1. Something recently happened, because I was bootstrapping fine with LLVM 3.2 recently

Re: LLVM 3.2 failure

2013-03-14 Thread Austin Seipp
My stage2 compiler got built and also fails on any compilation, no matter how trivial. After linking stage2, my build fails with: $ make ===--- building phase 0 make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds make[1]: Nothing to be done for `phase_0_builds'. ===--- building phase 1

Re: HEAD build fails on OS X

2013-04-03 Thread Austin Seipp
Andreas, After seeing this, I updated my 'pristine' (unmodified, completely clean) GHC tree to the latest HEAD, copied the mk/build.mk.sample over my existing build.mk (since Ian made some changes to it recently,) and HEAD builds fine for me as of this morning. I'm running the testsuite now...

Re: Turning on -funbox-small-strict-fields by default in GHC 7.8

2013-04-26 Thread Austin Seipp
+1 from me. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: Benchmark some large program that isn't carefully tuned by using strictness in just the right places (like our core libraries

Registering GHC for Coverity SCAN

2013-05-08 Thread Austin Seipp
Hello all, On IRC today, Nicolas Trangez brought up the idea of registering GHC for Coverity's SCAN project. SCAN is essentially a free service run by Coverity, which runs their Static Analyzer on open source projects ('open source' being defined by OSI) and gives the results back to developers.

Re: PolyKinds, Control.Category and GHC 7.6.1

2013-05-16 Thread Austin Seipp
I presume people are still interested in this. I actually just ran into Category's non poly-kinded-ness the other day (while attempting to make a Category instance for promoted pairs) and found this email in my history. Can we schedule this for 7.8.1? There's -plenty- of time, and the addendum to

Re: PolyKinds, Control.Category and GHC 7.6.1

2013-05-16 Thread Austin Seipp
, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Edward Kmett ekm...@gmail.com wrote: As noted by Simon, the bound on that should be = 706 though. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Austin Seipp ase...@pobox.com wrote: Also, apologies for reviving a thread. I also did not include Edward's original message for better context

Re: PolyKinds, Control.Category and GHC 7.6.1

2013-05-30 Thread Austin Seipp
This is now done: commit b1fc62762c56ccaa536d41b49a2aa0866e7420f7 Author: Austin Seipp ase...@pobox.com Date: Thu May 30 07:33:01 2013 -0500 Enable PolyKinds for Control.Category. This change will allow us to make various new things instances of Category, such as promoted tuples

Re: Test failure

2013-05-31 Thread Austin Seipp
accidentally break the build! | -Original Message- | From: Austin Seipp [mailto:ase...@pobox.com] | Sent: 30 May 2013 15:22 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: Austin Seipp; ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Test failure | | Reverted and fixed. Sorry about that; I had a small emergency

Re: how to checkout proper submodules

2013-06-04 Thread Austin Seipp
(Warning: incoming answer, followed by a rant.) Base is not a submodule, meaning that there is essentially no way to automatically check it back out to the exact same state it was in, given some specified GHC commit - the commit IDs are not tracked. At this point, you are basically on your own.

Re: how to checkout proper submodules

2013-06-05 Thread Austin Seipp
I'm back after sleep. A few points: 1) Subtree is - in my opinion - basically not an option. It has a nice workflow from the small amount of time I spent with it. But it's not installed by default with git, it's unclear if it ever will be. Although subtree gives the appearance of a unified

Re: how to checkout proper submodules

2013-06-05 Thread Austin Seipp
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Daniel Trstenjak daniel.trsten...@gmail.com wrote: I think subtree has been part of git since 1.7.x . I have just installed the default git package (git 1.8.1.2) of Ubuntu 13.04 and the subtree command is just there. It's *part* of mainline git, but it is not

Re: Proposal: better library management ideas (was: how to checkout proper submodules)

2013-06-09 Thread Austin Seipp
Hi Roman, On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Roman Cheplyaka r...@ro-che.info wrote: I'm a strong -1 on this. As one example, we have forks of base and ghc-prim for Haskell suite: https://github.com/haskell-suite/base https://github.com/haskell-suite/ghc-prim which would be much more

Re: Proposal: better library management ideas (was: how to checkout proper submodules)

2013-06-09 Thread Austin Seipp
email yet (I'm in a hurry right now), but... * Austin Seipp ase...@pobox.com [2013-06-09 00:23:22-0500] -- Let's just put base and testsuite inside the GHC repository directly. No submodules, no floating repos. Just put it directly inside and make a super commit, I guess. GHC becomes the de

PSA: GHC can now be built with Clang

2013-06-18 Thread Austin Seipp
Hi all, As of commit 5dc74f it should now be possible to build a working stage1 and stage2 compiler with (an extremely recent) Clang. With some caveats. You can just do: $ CC=/path/to/clang ./configure --with-gcc=/path/to/clang $ make I have done this work on Linux. I don't expect much

Re: build error on Mac

2013-06-19 Thread Austin Seipp
*Sigh* This is my fault; my OS X machine went away the other day and I haven't pulled the other older one out of my closet yet. I apologize for the inconvenience. I will push a fix very shortly. On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Kazu Yamamoto k...@iij.ad.jp wrote: Hi, I got an build error on

Re: build error on Mac

2013-06-19 Thread Austin Seipp
Hi Kazu, this should now be fixed. Once my Mac is back online I'll push my changes again, hopefully without err. :) On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Kazu Yamamoto k...@iij.ad.jp wrote: I will push a fix very shortly. OK. I will try again when you push it. --Kazu

Re: Integer constant folding in the presence of new primops

2013-06-19 Thread Austin Seipp
I mean, it certainly *seems* reasonable a 15% hit could come from pipelining changes or cache behavior or something. I don't think alignment would really be a huge issue; post-Nehalem I believe non-aligned writes/reads are extremely cheap. Non-intuitive behavior can totally happen too: I've seen

Re: PROPOSAL: Literate Haskell in markdown noation

2013-06-24 Thread Austin Seipp
This argument is a little tenuous in my opinion. Markdown is very ill-specified formally speaking with many implementations (including our beloved Pandoc) featuring various extensions. It is not really a 'standard' in the typical sense. Pandoc actually only recently supported 'GitHub code

Re: Patch/feature proposal: Source plugins

2013-07-08 Thread Austin Seipp
Looks simple enough in principle. This patch only implements hooking, although I agree with your original email that this would also be useful externally (with -fplugin.) However, the core plugin mechanism is the opposite: it only has an external interface, but I'm unsure if there's a similarly

Re: How accessible is a dynamically-linked ghc?

2013-07-11 Thread Austin Seipp
Theoretically, ARM supports stage2 with the home-grown linker and a statically linked GHC, but last I understood, it can't build dynamically. That's because building the compiler with LLVM dynamically is unsupported, and ARM can only use the LLVM backend. There may be hope though; in commit

Proposal: Gitolite for repository management

2013-07-30 Thread Austin Seipp
Hello all, Recently with the new haskell.org server move, a few of us have taken roles of administrating the new server infrastructure including ghc.haskell.org, containing the GHC repositories. (Previously, the GHC repos were on abbot.haskell.org, which was maintained by Galois. The new servers

Re: GHC git server issue : warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_AU.UTF-8)

2013-08-05 Thread Austin Seipp
I did this. Thanks for the tip. Let me know if anything else is going on. The page describing the old server setup is here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell.org_domain - I was going to take the time to update this earlier this week but got sidetracked unfortunately. In the meantime, the

NOTICE: The Big Gitolite Switch

2013-08-08 Thread Austin Seipp
Hello all, Following our proposal from about a week ago, Herbert and I plan to make the Gitolite migration happen Real Soon Now. If possible, we would actually like to have it happen tomorrow, although that's understandably a bit too short of a window of warning perhaps. However, commit activity

Re: NOTICE: The Big Gitolite Switch

2013-08-09 Thread Austin Seipp
seconds. * A brand-new gitweb interface, which can be located at git.haskell.org - note the CNAME entry for the domain isn't there yet. We're waiting to get the entry in place so you can use it. Let me know if any questions or concerns. Thanks! On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Austin Seipp ase

NOTICE: Gitolite migration is complete.

2013-08-09 Thread Austin Seipp
anymore (well, this is a nice update for us administrators :) The following people have had their keys re-added, and should be able to push and pull from the new setup. * Andreas Voellmy * Austin Seipp * Ben Lippmeier * Iavor Diatchki * David Terei * David Waern * Dimitrios Vytiniotis

Re: request for reviews for my first patch -- ticket 7401

2013-08-11 Thread Austin Seipp
Technically, EmptyDataDecls is part of Haskell 2010, so it is standard these days (and H2010 is our default in GHC.) As far as I know, the 2010 standard doesn't address this point about deriving for empty data decls, but I agree with your reasoning here. It's more consistent to have it apply to

Re: request for reviews for my first patch -- ticket 7401

2013-08-11 Thread Austin Seipp
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Richard Eisenberg e...@cis.upenn.edu wrote: According to the Haskell 2010 report (http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch11.html#x18-18200011), a datatype with no constructors cannot derive any instances. You're quite right! I should have

Re: Segfault on x86 with -O2

2013-08-13 Thread Austin Seipp
Kazu, What about 3e598fe0b01f4692f50c377ac91010040227e7ce in ghc? This was a calling convention bug that Geoffrey fixed. It looks like it is almost certainly the culprit. On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Kazu Yamamoto k...@iij.ad.jp wrote: Hi, Some changes in the last 8 days fixed segfault

Re: Segfault on x86 with -O2

2013-08-13 Thread Austin Seipp
And just for the record, people reported this morning they couldn't reproduce #8103 anymore, and I'd bet this probably fixes that one, too. On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Austin Seipp ase...@pobox.com wrote: Kazu, What about 3e598fe0b01f4692f50c377ac91010040227e7ce in ghc

Deriving clauses for EmptyDataDecls [was: request for reviews for my first patch -- ticket 7401]

2013-08-13 Thread Austin Seipp
-users - I think there's room for voices on this note, and I'd really appreciate users and developers weighing in. [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.3/html/users_guide/deriving.html Richard On Aug 12, 2013, at 12:55 AM, Austin Seipp wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Richard Eisenberg

Re: config.status: error: cannot find input file: `include/HsTimeConfig.h.in'

2013-08-14 Thread Austin Seipp
Peter, This should now be fixed in 94c35ddf31aef28de84661860f77a94229f60cb4. Your nightlies should hopefully begin succeeding soon. Thanks! On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote: Hi guys, I have trouble building recent snapshots of the compiler, despite the

Re: [GHC] #7574: Register allocator chokes on certain branches with literals

2013-08-15 Thread Austin Seipp
| ---+--- | | Comment (by Austin Seipp aseipp@…): | | In [changeset:647875eacb313b97af5525dc92df98ec32171d16/testsuite]: | {{{ | #!CommitTicketReference repository=testsuite | revision=647875eacb313b97af5525dc92df98ec32171d16 | Add a failing test, see #7574. | | Signed

Re: Building GHC on Mac stops

2013-08-15 Thread Austin Seipp
Simon, Edsko luckily already is two steps ahead and filed the ticket as Kazu notes. However, while I *did* see this bug before, I've had a difficult time reproducing it now. None of the builds on my amd64/linux machine this week have triggered it. Kazu - perhaps are you still seeing this

Re: lambda mining

2013-08-16 Thread Austin Seipp
IMO, it's reasonable to allow this, but there's one minor sticky bit. async's only dependency is stm, and it's also part of the platform, so I expect it will be relatively stable. In this case, perhaps we should just add 'async' to the set of 'extra' libraries for ./sync-all, which can be built

Re: Committer list [was: Re: NOTICE: Gitolite migration is complete.]

2013-08-18 Thread Austin Seipp
| -Original Message- | From: Austin Seipp [mailto:ase...@pobox.com] | Sent: 17 August 2013 04:42 | To: ghc-devs@haskell.org | Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones | Subject: Committer list [was: Re: NOTICE: Gitolite migration is complete.] | | Sounds good to me. I've found the same info useful

Re: lambda mining

2013-08-18 Thread Austin Seipp
it to nofib as an extra benchmark, I think. On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Austin Seipp ase...@pobox.com wrote: IMO, it's reasonable to allow this, but there's one minor sticky bit. async's only dependency is stm, and it's also part of the platform, so I expect it will be relatively stable

Re: Committer list [was: Re: NOTICE: Gitolite migration is complete.]

2013-08-18 Thread Austin Seipp
in your details on TeamGHC. Simon | -Original Message- | From: Austin Seipp [mailto:ase...@pobox.com] | Sent: 18 August 2013 16:47 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: Austin Seipp; ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Committer list [was: Re: NOTICE: Gitolite migration is complete

Re: FW: Literal overflow test fails

2013-08-19 Thread Austin Seipp
Yes, this slipped by my radar. I've got my win8 build machine up now, so I can push something shortly. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: Austin Could you act on this thread please? Currently I think the Windows build is broken because of it.

Re: DNS entry for git.haskell.org active now!

2013-08-19 Thread Austin Seipp
Thank you Herbert! On Monday, August 19, 2013, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: Hello GHC Devs, Hopefully, the new DNS entry for git.haskell.org should be visible for all of you by the time you read this. This mostly completes the migration part of the GitolitePlan[1]. With the new hostname,

7.8 Feature window

2013-08-20 Thread Austin Seipp
All, GHC 7.8's release is drawing near. We would like to make a release candidate sometime around ICFP, which will be in late September. Unfortunately that's just over a month a way, so the clock is ticking! The tree will need a few weeks of stabilization. After that, we will release an RC, and

Re: 7.8 Feature window

2013-08-20 Thread Austin Seipp
Yes - but leavae it to me. I'll do some cleanup since some of Richard's work was also merged. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Jan Stolarek jan.stola...@p.lodz.plwrote: Details here: do please modify directly: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8 Feature I was working on

Re: Reproducible build recipes for GHC development VMs?

2013-08-21 Thread Austin Seipp
There has been some talk of some similar stuff in the IRC channel. This would for example, be fantastic in combination with Vagrant[1], to immediately provision a machine you can begin working with even on Windows. Then you could have a GHC development environment up in minutes. On a related

Re: Disallow pushing of new trailing whitespace

2013-08-22 Thread Austin Seipp
This seems acceptable IMO. The general working conventions already are to separate whitespace and/or tab changes from a commit containing actual content. If you ./validate cleanly, but the server rejects the push for whitespace, adding an extra commit on top to clean up the affected files seems

Re: can't build head: parser file name / module name conflict

2013-08-22 Thread Austin Seipp
Carter is building with the new XCode, which only has Clang on OS X. This error is a result of clang preprocessing Parser.y.pp, since it uses a 'double pass' CPP trick to pass -fcmm-sink to the stage2 compiler. I could never fully come to understand the behavior of why this was an error, and it

Active Branches

2013-08-22 Thread Austin Seipp
All, A while back, Nicolas Frisby compiled a small list of the currently active branches in the GHC tree. I would like to clean up a lot of the existing branches which are effectively dead (by deleting them.) At the same time, it's nice to take inventory and see what's currently out there, or 'in

Validate failures

2013-08-22 Thread Austin Seipp
Simon, While validating the changes for #8144, I noticed there were several failures that seem like a result of your recent commits (amd64/Linux): Unexpected failures: . T4059 [bad stderr] (normal) . T4850 [bad stderr] (normal) . T5423 [bad stderr] (normal) . T7037 [bad stderr]

Re: how to checkout proper submodules

2013-08-22 Thread Austin Seipp
Simon and I discussed this a little today. I think there are several legitimate points made throughout the threads here, but the problem is clear: consistent builds are difficult, if not legitimately impossible. That's a very big problem. Right now, it is far too late into release cycle to do

Re: [commit: testsuite] master: linker_unload fails when using dynamic GHCi. (a5875c4)

2013-08-22 Thread Austin Seipp
/a5875c4e4fb83993142c8e8294b47516adf6a77f/testsuite --**--**--- commit a5875c4e4fb83993142c8e8294b475**16adf6a77f Author: Austin Seipp ase...@pobox.com Date: Thu Aug 22 13:22:22 2013 -0500 linker_unload fails when using dynamic GHCi. This is because

HEADS UP: interface file change

2013-08-22 Thread Austin Seipp
Hi all, I merged patches from #8144 into HEAD to fix nasty recompilation-checking behavior. As a result, the interface format has changed, so you'll need to clean your tree the next time you sync up. -- Regards, Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671 ___

Re: Building on windows

2013-08-23 Thread Austin Seipp
I fixed the ./sync-all detection (I just checked it myself, but thanks for the patch though Niklas!) Simon, I've got a working i386/windows build here, but I'll rebuild a new VM and try again and closely follow the docs and amend what's necessary. In the mean time, perhaps try with a fresh tree?

Re: Can't make libffi

2013-08-23 Thread Austin Seipp
I believe this should now be fixed. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.ukwrote: On 20/08/13 11:55, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: Trying to build HEAD I get. inplace/bin/ghc-stage1@exeext_host@ -fPIC -dynamic -H32m -O -Werror -Wall -H64m -O0 -Iincludes

Re: Can't make libffi

2013-08-23 Thread Austin Seipp
What platform are you compiling on? On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.ukwrote: On 23/08/13 20:13, Austin Seipp wrote: I believe this should now be fixed. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.ukwrote: I started

Re: Can't make libffi

2013-08-23 Thread Austin Seipp
, and it should keep going normally. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.ukwrote: On 23/08/13 21:23, Austin Seipp wrote: What platform are you compiling on? Linux misaki 3.9.0-rc6 #1 SMP Tue Apr 9 10:51:07 BST 2013 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU L7700

Re: Configure: gcc problem under mingw/i386

2013-08-23 Thread Austin Seipp
Please update your GHC repository tree, then run: ./sync-all get There was a bug I fixed today where 'msys' wasn't correctly detected as Windows, so it skipped the ghc-tarballs repository. Then make sure you do './sync-all pull' to update everything else (there were other changes that require

Re: Buidling profiled fails

2013-08-27 Thread Austin Seipp
I was actually looking at this exact code very recently since I was fixing the build system with Stage1Only a little last night. We do something like this in ./ghc.mk: define addExtraPackage ifeq $2 - # Do nothing; this package is already handled above

Re: Haskell.org down?

2013-08-28 Thread Austin Seipp
Something happened earlier about an hour or so ago, and Rock abruptly powered off. We're still investigating. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: Haskell.org looks down from here. Also ghc.haskell.org. I’ve tried

Re: Cannot make ghc: Failed to load interface for GHC.Base

2013-08-29 Thread Austin Seipp
When was the last time you cleaned your tree? Earlier this week I made a breaking change to the interface file format. If you have a build from before then, update and incrementally rebuild, it will break. On Thursday, August 29, 2013, David Luposchainsky wrote: On 2013-08-29 12:20, Dan Rosén

Re: Anyone else failing to validate on 'linker_unload'?

2013-09-01 Thread Austin Seipp
I have also not seen this test fail on amd64/Linux since Simon committed it. From the valgrind output, it looks like your machine is 32bit, correct Ryan? Edward told me yesterday on IRC he saw this fail on 64bit Linux, so I'm a little confused. Can you please try this? $ cd testsuite/tests/rts $

Re: Anyone else failing to validate on 'linker_unload'?

2013-09-01 Thread Austin Seipp
-working/testsuite/tests/rts/linker_unload) ==72103== On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Austin Seipp ase...@pobox.com wrote: Oops, should have said this: if you checkout the Makefile for testsuite/tests/rts - at the very bottom - you'll see the linker_unload target. When run, the executable

Re: A build problem on Mac

2013-09-08 Thread Austin Seipp
Hi Kazu, I believe this is related to http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8205 - can you try: $ git revert d61c3ac186c94021c851f7a2a6d20631e35fc1ba and see if your build finishes? Perhaps you can help Jan diagnose it if so... On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Kazu Yamamoto k...@iij.ad.jp

7.8 Release Update

2013-09-08 Thread Austin Seipp
Friends, After talking with SPJ, we've decided that the cutoff date for the 7.8 feature window will essentially start on Monday, the 16th. This is the beginning of the week before ICFP. This is a week from tomorrow. Afterwords, I suspect we will cut the 7.8 branch in early October (my notes

Re: newtype wrappers

2013-09-09 Thread Austin Seipp
I'm OK with this. Simon, since you've been doing the most work helping Joachim, I presume you can help him land the patch sometime this week? Or should I put it on my merge queue (along with AMP, etc?) On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: | However,

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-09 Thread Austin Seipp
Just my 02c: I feel the GHC API is allowed to be less stable and a little more in-flux than most things. We've never particularly advertised stability here anyway, so having a design that evolves a little is reasonable, IMO. Perhaps it being in the release will help drive more feedback, earlier.

Re: 7.8 Release Update

2013-09-09 Thread Austin Seipp
Thanks Richard! On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Richard Eisenberg e...@cis.upenn.edu wrote: On Sep 8, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Austin Seipp ase...@pobox.com wrote: * Pedro and Richard - what's the story on propositional equality, etc? This is mentioned on the status page[1] but I'm not sure what

Re: 7.8 Release Update

2013-09-09 Thread Austin Seipp
I'm going to look into that tonight. There are tests for the data kind syntax in the test suite, currently on the data-kind-syntax branch. Other than the haddock fix, I think that we're ready to go. Thanks! --trevor On Sun 08 Sep 2013 04:27:33 PM PDT, Austin Seipp wrote: Friends

Re: 7.8 Release Update

2013-09-09 Thread Austin Seipp
this list with the offending modules that dll-split reported, and see if things go OK. If not, let me know and I'll check out your branch and take a look. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Austin, On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Austin Seipp ase

Re: 7.8 Release Update

2013-09-09 Thread Austin Seipp
, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: Yes I will try to review it this week. (This is the first time I've had access to the code.) Simon | -Original Message- | From: Austin Seipp [mailto:ase...@pobox.com] | Sent: 09 September 2013 16:25 | To: Trevor

Re: delete remote branch

2013-09-10 Thread Austin Seipp
Nick, just keep the ActiveBranches[1] page on the wiki up to date. I plan on deleting all the dead branches (and sending out a warning beforehand) after the 7.8 release. We'll be doing other cleanups then too. On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Nicolas Frisby nicolas.fri...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks

Re: 7.8 Release Update

2013-09-12 Thread Austin Seipp
at 1:18 PM, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: I think this can definitely be clarified. I'll update the docs a little later today when I get a chance. On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: Is this something that could be clarified in GHC's

Re: 7.8 Release Update

2013-09-13 Thread Austin Seipp
. An easy way to do this is: | | $ git checkout master | $ git merge --squash type-nats-simple Does that make One Patch with a single coherent message, abandoning all the intermediate commit messages on type-nats-simple? I hope so. Simon -- Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed

Re: has no symbols/same member name warnings using libtool

2013-09-14 Thread Austin Seipp
the output of libtool when we call it from GHC, but I'd love to find the root cause if we can. Thanks for any hints! Cheers Luke ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs -- Austin Seipp

Re: Validate fails for current master

2013-09-14 Thread Austin Seipp
/listinfo/ghc-devs -- Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Re: Validate fails for current master

2013-09-14 Thread Austin Seipp
and testsuite? I'm pretty sure I did a `./sync-all --testsuite get` right before the build. But I'll try again. -- Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http

Re: Bit-rotting(?) HUGS-specific code in GHC boot libraries

2013-09-15 Thread Austin Seipp
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Re: 7.8 Release Update

2013-09-16 Thread Austin Seipp
continue to liberally report bugs (or patches!) - it's much better if we find them as early as possible. On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Austin Seipp ase...@pobox.com wrote: Friends, After talking with SPJ, we've decided that the cutoff date for the 7.8 feature window will essentially start

Re: 7.8 Release Update

2013-09-16 Thread Austin Seipp
at 11:00 AM, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: Friends, The time is here! We'll be closing off new features this week. There are some exceptions that have been made already: * Geoffrey will get SIMD/Template Haskell in this week, as he's been a little busy. But it's very close. * I

Re: AMP failure

2013-09-18 Thread Austin Seipp
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Re: AMP failure

2013-09-18 Thread Austin Seipp
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Re: Windows build failures in FD.hs

2013-10-01 Thread Austin Seipp
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GHC 7.8 Release Status Schedule

2013-10-05 Thread Austin Seipp
through here on the list (and glasgow-haskell-users) so interested parties can read up on what is happening. -- Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org

Re: New page on the wiki: Emacs tips and tricks

2013-10-08 Thread Austin Seipp
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Re: Testsuite fails at the first fence on Windows

2013-10-08 Thread Austin Seipp
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Re: storage.c

2013-10-08 Thread Austin Seipp
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Re: Turning ForceSpecConstr/NoSpecConstr into pragmas?

2013-10-09 Thread Austin Seipp
is always the same anyway... is it exported from somewhere? It seems silly that I have to define and annotate my own version when I want to use it. I realize that doesn't solve your stage 1 problem... more of just a general question. -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed

Re: small improvement to roles mechanism

2013-10-11 Thread Austin Seipp
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Re: Build error: No (or multiple) ghc rts package is registered

2013-10-15 Thread Austin Seipp
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GHC October 2013 Status Report

2013-10-18 Thread Austin Seipp
anything. Feel free to amend typos etc, should you be so inclined. :) [1] http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/Oct13 -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs

Re: Why do we put GMP allocations on GHC heaps?

2013-10-23 Thread Austin Seipp
in a timely manner. This is a general and well-known property of all garbage collectors, not something unique to GHC. ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell

Re: Why do we put GMP allocations on GHC heaps?

2013-10-23 Thread Austin Seipp
Apologies for the quick double-take, minor amendments: We actually want libtommath. Also it is not BSD3 - it is public domain (it's also 100% portable ISO C and builds anywhere.) On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: First, I took some time a year or two

Re: hoopl questions

2013-10-23 Thread Austin Seipp
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Re: Why do we put GMP allocations on GHC heaps?

2013-10-23 Thread Austin Seipp
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Gergely Risko gerg...@risko.hu wrote: On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:49:00 -0500, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com writes: $ ghc foo.hs $ ghc -integer-type=gmp foo.hs $ ghc -integer-type=openssl foo.hs $ ghc -integer-type=simple foo.hs Well, I didn't think

7.8.1 RC

2013-11-03 Thread Austin Seipp
msys2 thing.) * Richard Smith, if you're out there, I should have listened to you on the LLVM list. I'll learn from this one. -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Austin Seipp
Thank you Ryan! I'll be getting my ARMv7 build machine back online today, hopefully. Jens Peterson reported he had a working ARMv7 build to me today from HEAD, which is good news. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Newton rrnew...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reminder. Wiki is updated;

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-15 Thread Austin Seipp
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Repository Reorganization Question

2013-12-04 Thread Austin Seipp
metadata from commits too. But I won't cry if people vote against this. -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Better GHC builds for Windows users

2013-12-09 Thread Austin Seipp
shout if you have problems. I've tested this with both an x86 and x86_64 build. -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman

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