Re: UTF-8 decoding error

2006-09-27 Thread Matthew Pocock
Fortress (sun's possibly-not-vaporware hpc language) supports arbitrary unicode chars in code, and has an escape syntax for commonly used things. Similarly, proof-general/isabelle supports tex-style escapes for symbols greek. It seems to me that a pre-processor that turns human-friendly

Re[2]: Year 2038 problem in GHC 6.4.2 runtime

2006-09-27 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Cyril, Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 1:30:23 AM, you wrote: I am afraid I would need the new Time library a little earlier than 2038, because I am working on financial software where it is not uncommon to have contracts over 30 years long. of course i'm joking. i even don't known is

Re: more extra-libs for ghc 6.6

2006-09-27 Thread Simon Marlow
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: how about adding to the list of extra libs the following very useful ones: regex-* FilePath MissingH Edison Let me echo what Ian said: the idea with extralibs was not to bundle useful stuff with GHC, but rather to *separate* from GHC as many of the bundled libraries

Re: bug in mallocForeignPtrBytes (both 6.4 and 6.6)

2006-09-27 Thread Simon Marlow
Duncan Coutts wrote: On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 01:28 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Duncan, Sunday, September 24, 2006, 12:22:38 AM, you wrote: after program prints 40 mb allocated look at Task Manager indication - it shows that two times more memory actually in use. it seems that problem

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-27 Thread Simon Marlow
Christian Maeder wrote: Simon Marlow schrieb: Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6. Snapshots beginning with 6.5.20060831 are release candidates for 6.6 Download snapshots from here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ I've

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-27 Thread Christian Maeder
Simon Marlow schrieb: Christian Maeder wrote: I've downloaded the source bundle ghc-6.5.20060918-src.tar.bz After ./configure and make, I realized that I have no root permissions for installation. So called ./configure --prefix=/local/home/maeder/ghc-6.5 followed by make and make install

RE: bug in mallocForeignPtrBytes (both 6.4 and 6.6)

2006-09-27 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
I added notes about this to http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Performance/GHC S | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Behalf Of Simon Marlow | Sent: 27 September 2006 13:44 | To: Duncan Coutts | Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org |

Re: compiler-independent core libraries infrastructure

2006-09-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:20:36PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: As it happens I was working on getting GHC to use cabal to build base et al on the plane the other day, and I had a brief look at this. See my comment in http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/710 for the results of my longer

more fixups for GHC docs: ddump flags

2006-09-27 Thread Rene de Visser
The flags under section 4.17.26. Compiler debugging options seem to be out of date. They seem to be wrong for both 6.42 and 6.6 For example --ddump-cmm is not listed, but works. But --ddump-absC is listed, and gives the error unknown flag. I can't get -ddump-stix to work either. Gone, or

Re: UTF-8 decoding error

2006-09-27 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
On Sep 27, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Matthew Pocock wrote: Fortress (sun's possibly-not-vaporware hpc language) supports arbitrary unicode chars in code, and has an escape syntax for commonly used things. I have spent the past week writing Fortress code (which runs in parallel, even). But I'm

Re: [Haskell] Deferred instance declarations (serialization of existential boxes)

2006-09-27 Thread Misha Aizatulin
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: Concerning your application | I am having a box like | data Box = forall a. Cxt a = Box a | and want to write a Read instances for it. I don’t see how it helps to defer the Read instance. I would defer the instance declaration till the point where I know