ANNOUNCE: GHC porting works again

2009-05-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, The instructions for porting GHC to a new architecture now work again with the HEAD: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting If you get stuck when trying to do a port, then please feel free to ask us on cvs-...@haskell.org or in #ghc on freenode. Thanks Ian

Re: Should exhaustiveness testing be on by default?

2009-05-22 Thread John Meacham
JHC has had this for a while, but it calls the pragma 'SRCLOC_ANNOTATE'. It is actually mentioned on this page: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ExplicitCallStack I am not entirely sure whether I will keep the current syntax (it doesn't really make sense for operators), but if

Re: Mac OS X 64bit unregisterised port

2009-05-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 05:50:00PM -0500, austin s wrote: With this unregistered port you've made available, we should be well on our way to doing this, correct? Right, by starting from that bindist you won't have to do the bootstrapping. Now you just need to do a registerised build and fix