With ghc-4.08.1, running on Linux with -0 -O2-for-C, I get:
loop
With ghc-4.08, running on Solaris, with -O -O2-for-C, I get:
hsc: no threads to run: infinite loop or deadlock?
With ghc-4.08, running on Solaris, with -Onot, the compilation works.
For the sources you will need the
Simon Marlow wrote:
Ok, we'll need to investigate but this is going to be a tricky one to track
down. Is there any way you can try to narrow down the problem?
sigh Oh alright then. It's taken me some time but attached is a version
narrowed down to just two files. When you've unpacked it, go
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
It's a bug all right, and a bizarre one at that.
It's fixed in the before-ghci-branch.
I'm not quite certain when it got fixed, mind you!
Hmm. Maybe we're going to need 4.08.2.
The trouble with all this wondrous new GHC code is that one suspects that it has
| Have you tried
| compiling UniForM (now up to 48000 lines of Haskell) with
| GHC lately?
|
| No, and perhaps it should be part of our nightly test suite
| (which already contains several hundred thousand lines of code, BTW).
George,
Good idea!
Send us details about how to get access to
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Send us details about how to get access to your CVS archive,
plus instructions on how to build it, and we'll set it up.
Well you can read
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~ger/cvs/CVS.html
but (touch wood) the following should work
(bash is assumed)
(1)
Simon Marlow wrote:
[snip]
I stopped trying to compile GHC from CVS ages ago when I was
getting unexplained
core dumps which apparently could only be fixed by
reinstalling gcc/binutils . . .
And that's our fault?
[snip]
I've no idea whose fault it is. I think there are various
We're planning to continue make minimal fixes to 4.08, and
at some point release 4.08.2. It's hard to get to a stable point,
and 4.08 is pretty solid, so the best plan seems to be to
continue to fix it -- even though that involves some extra work on
our part to find bugs that have (probably)
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