Re: ghc needing ghc is the biggest bug in ghc

2006-03-13 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
dh: > Are you fully nerd How can ghc expect an installed ghc for the > first build stage? What is that I know! What is wrong with all these functional programmers defining everything with recursion I think they do it just to be fully nerd!!! ;) -- Don

Re: ghc needing ghc is the biggest bug in ghc

2006-03-13 Thread Immanuel Litzroth
"Dennis Heuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Man, unbelievable Indeed. Immanuel ___ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs

Re: ghc needing ghc is the biggest bug in ghc

2006-03-13 Thread Lennart Augustsson
But how does gcc compile what you call "a basic C compiler"? By using a C compiler. And GHC does something similar, it compiles "a basic Haskell compiler". And what does it need to do that? A Haskell compiler. -- Lennart Dennis Heuer wrote: Are you fully nerd How can ghc expect an

[GHC] #723: The package database should be a directory of files instead of a single file

2006-03-13 Thread GHC
#723: The package database should be a directory of files instead of a single file -+-- Reporter: simonmar |Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: ghc releasing memory during compilation

2006-03-13 Thread Simon Marlow
Duncan Coutts wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:47 +, Simon Marlow wrote: Am I right in thinking that ghc's rts can free memory back to the system when the heap pressure reduces (at least if it's doing a compacting GC)? No, not at the moment. One thing we planned to do but never got aroun

Re: ghc releasing memory during compilation

2006-03-13 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:47 +, Simon Marlow wrote: > > Am I right in thinking that ghc's rts can free memory back to the system > > when the heap pressure reduces (at least if it's doing a compacting GC)? > > No, not at the moment. One thing we planned to do but never got around > to is to

Re: ghc releasing memory during compilation

2006-03-13 Thread Simon Marlow
Duncan Coutts wrote: As some are aware some Wash modules cause ghc to take a very large amount of memory. It also generates very large C and assembler files (the .raw_s file for one module is nearly 50Mb). So unsurprisingly it also makes gcc take a very large amount of memory. Unfortunately for

Re: ghc releasing memory during compilation

2006-03-13 Thread Simon Marlow
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Sunday, March 12, 2006, 8:00:05 PM, you wrote: ghbrho> Subject: ghc releasing memory during compilation ghbrho> Am I right in thinking that ghc's rts can free memory back to the system ghbrho> when the heap pressure reduces (at least if it's doing a compacting GC)? ghbrh

Re: ghc needing ghc is the biggest bug in ghc

2006-03-13 Thread Arthur van Leeuwen
On 10-mrt-2006, at 8:54, Dennis Heuer wrote: Are you fully nerd How can ghc expect an installed ghc for the first build stage? What is that See how gcc does it. It creates a basic C compiler in the first stage and then compiles the further stages with that. Your strategy shows th

ghc needing ghc is the biggest bug in ghc

2006-03-13 Thread Dennis Heuer
Are you fully nerd How can ghc expect an installed ghc for the first build stage? What is that See how gcc does it. It creates a basic C compiler in the first stage and then compiles the further stages with that. Your strategy shows that you just don't care. So don't expect that admins

Visual Haskell: Cannot Create Project

2006-03-13 Thread Ed.Butler
Title: Visual Haskell: Cannot Create Project I downloaded and installed the Visual Haskell addin for Visual Studio 2003 today, but Visual Studio displays the following error message when I attempt to create my first Haskell Console Application project:  The application for project ‘C:\Progr