Re: ghc-6.6.1 for FreeBSD/amd64 binary distribution

2007-06-01 Thread Simon Marlow
Gregory Wright wrote: The x86-64 (or amd64 if you like) Linux port doesn't do relocation of data references outside 2Gb. It is the subject of this bug: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/781 the underlying problem is that the relocatable reference is only 32 bits, because we're

2-days old in Haskell

2007-06-01 Thread TOPE KAREM
I am very new to Haskell, and I am using this webpage as a learning source: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_5_steps#Install_Haskell I downloaded and instal GHC and it works as was said. I tried to write my first Haskell program: prelude Hello World! Hello World, World! it works

Re: 2-days old in Haskell

2007-06-01 Thread C.M.Brown
Hi Tope, When I tried to compile it as instucted on the webpage ( $ ghc -o hello hello.hs), I got this error message. are you actually typing in that '$' into the command prompt? try leaving out the '$' and just type ghc -o hello hello.hs. Chris.

Re: 2-days old in Haskell

2007-06-01 Thread Ketil Malde
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 16:00 +0200, TOPE KAREM wrote: I opened a notepad and type this program: main = putStrLn Hello, Word! I saved this file as hello.hs in the same directory GHCi 6.6.1 was installed. You can store it anywhere, as long as GHC is in your search path. When I tried to

Re: 2-days old in Haskell

2007-06-01 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:00:51PM +0200, TOPE KAREM wrote: I am very new to Haskell, and I am using this webpage as a learning source: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_5_steps#Install_Haskell I downloaded and instal GHC and it works as was said. I tried to write my first

Re: 6.6.1 for windows

2007-06-01 Thread Juanma Barranquero
Hi. You've probably already noticed, but in case not, there are now two installers available for Windows: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_661.html#windows I installed the old style Windows Installer, prepared by Sigbjorn Finne. ghc --version says: The Glorious Glasgow Haskell

too much let-floating

2007-06-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
Hia folks, More performance bugs or misunderstandings. Yes, binary serialisation again. Consider this example from an instance for the Binary serialisation class. We get lots and lots of code that looks like this: data Foo a = Foo Int | Bar ... instance Binary Foo where put (Foo a) = putTag