Re: GHC 4.04.19990916 produces coredumping executable

1999-12-06 Thread Ian Jackson
I wrote: I have a program (no doubt pretty grotty - I'm still messing around learning Haskell) which causes GHC (4.04.19990916) to produce an executable which coredumps. ... I'm using a GHC binary package from Debian GNU/Linux, binary package version 4.04.19990916-0slink1 built by Michael

My head just exploded too.

1999-12-06 Thread Alex Ferguson
Although I'd read the restriction in advance, I nevertheless unwittingly contrived to try and write a binding-group style pattern-match against an existentially quantified data constructor. Oops. (Actually, I did it twice, what's worse...) I can imagine this is indeed an irksome thing to TC,

RE: My head just exploded too.

1999-12-06 Thread Alex Ferguson
Me: | Although I'd read the restriction in advance, I nevertheless | unwittingly | contrived to try and write a binding-group style pattern-match against | an existentially quantified data constructor. Oops. (Actually, I did | it twice, what's worse...) I can imagine this is indeed an

RE: My head just exploded too.

1999-12-06 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Although I'd read the restriction in advance, I nevertheless | unwittingly | contrived to try and write a binding-group style pattern-match against | an existentially quantified data constructor. Oops. (Actually, I did | it twice, what's worse...) I can imagine this is indeed an irksome |

RE: GHC 4.04.19990916 produces coredumping executable

1999-12-06 Thread Simon Marlow
[...] -davenant:stalk ./nettlestalk foo Segmentation fault (core dumped) I'm using 4.04.19990916-2 and it doesn't coredump, but shows the same deadlock error, you mentioned in the other mail: [509]$ ./nettlestalk foo nettlestalk: fatal error: No threads to run! Deadlock? This