Re: Does ghc 7.6.1 support gold ld?

2012-10-09 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Never mind. `make clean` helps. Though I have no idea why On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, > Since gold ld (GNU gold (GNU Binutils for Debian 2.22) 1.11) somehow > better than ld, so I am using it in my debian box. > Now I want to compile ghc 7.6.1 with i

what are good starter tasks for getting involved with ghc dev?

2012-10-09 Thread Carter Tazio Schonwald
Hey All, I'm interested in getting involved in (/ helping out ) with dev work on GHC, what are good ways to get started on tackling smaller bits in the near term? (better to do simple things before more ambitious things after all!) should i just go through the issue tracker for tasks or bugs

Re: copyArray# bug

2012-10-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 09/10/2012 15:58, Johan Tibell wrote: On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: Johan Tibell wrote: Hi, I did quite a bit of work to make sure copyArray# and friends get unrolled if the number of elements to copy is a constant. Does this still work with the extra branch?

Re: copyArray# bug

2012-10-09 Thread Johan Tibell
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: > Johan Tibell wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I did quite a bit of work to make sure copyArray# and friends get >> unrolled if the number of elements to copy is a constant. Does this >> still work with the extra branch? > > I would expect it to but I

Recompiling a module fails

2012-10-09 Thread Jeroen Weijers
I'm currently having a problem with compiling modules. I have two files Data.hs and Class.hs (Class depends on Data). When I compile Class.hs (ghc --make Class.hs) the ghc does what it should do. When I now make a change to Class.hs (add a newline to the end of the file for example) and try to run

Re: copyArray# bug

2012-10-09 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > Roman Leshchinskiy writes: > > > [...] > >> If I'm right then I would suggest not to use copyArray# and >> copyMutableArray# for GHC < 7.8. > > I've grepped today's > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/archive.tar > > for occurences of those two p

Re: Installing binary tarball fails on Linux

2012-10-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 08/10/2012 12:57, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Montag, den 08.10.2012, 12:08 +0100 schrieb Simon Marlow: On 01/10/2012 13:00, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: On 01/10/2012 12:05, Simon Marlow wrote: This probably means that you have packages installed in your ~/.cabal from a 32-bit GHC and yo

Re: copyArray# bug

2012-10-09 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Roman Leshchinskiy writes: [...] > If I'm right then I would suggest not to use copyArray# and > copyMutableArray# for GHC < 7.8. I've grepped today's http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/archive.tar for occurences of those two primitives, and this resulted in the following ma

Re: copyArray# bug

2012-10-09 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
Johan Tibell wrote: > Hi, > > I did quite a bit of work to make sure copyArray# and friends get > unrolled if the number of elements to copy is a constant. Does this > still work with the extra branch? I would expect it to but I don't know. Does the testsuite check for this? Roman ___