Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

2012-01-04 Thread Simon Marlow
On 03/01/2012 16:54, Tristan Ravitch wrote: This might be the expected behavior but I'll ask anyway. I have what seems to be a legitimate stack overflow (due to excessive recursion and not the evaluation of a big thunk). The stack trace from -xc only shows about 13 calls on the stack (with

Re: Records in Haskell

2012-01-04 Thread Greg Weber
The Frege author does not have a ghc mail list account but gave a more detailed explanation of how he goes about TDNR for records and how often it type checks without annotation in practice. A more general explanation is here:

Re: renamed GMP symbols in GHC

2012-01-04 Thread Simon Marlow
On 22/12/2011 22:58, Michal Konečný wrote: Several issues related to the way GMP is included in GHC were publicly discussed in the past with the goal of replacing GMP. As summarised in this wiki by Peter Tanski http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes, the main issues were:

Re: renamed GMP symbols in GHC

2012-01-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear Michal, Am Mittwoch, den 04.01.2012, 16:33 + schrieb Michal Konečný: On Wednesday 04 January 2012 12:31:23 Joachim Breitner wrote: I guess this means me... Indeed Debian has the policy to avoid modified bundled libraries, if somehow possible. For example, we patch the build system

Re: renamed GMP symbols in GHC

2012-01-04 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:50, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: Now you might argue that gmp will never be the source of security problems (although I woudn’t be too convinced about that). But even then There's actually a patch for a (claimed to be minor potential) security issue

Re: renamed GMP symbols in GHC

2012-01-04 Thread Axel Simon
Hi all, On 04.01.2012, at 17:50, Joachim Breitner wrote: BTW, Is there a way to get the linker to create two independent copies of a library in one program space? Maybe if it is compiled as PIC (random name dropping here)? That would seem to be an elegant solution, as it makes the distro

Re: renamed GMP symbols in GHC

2012-01-04 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:31:23PM +, Joachim Breitner wrote: One potential problem is that some Linux distributions really don't like it if you bundle modified versions of external libraries. However, I just don't see a way around this: [...] [...] I guess this means me... Indeed

Re: filename corruption with -osuf in ghc-7.0.3

2012-01-04 Thread Evan Laforge
In 7.4 we merge the stub object file into the main object file automatically, so you don't have to worry about stub objects in your Makefiles or whatever. Nice, this is very convenient. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list