Re: [Haskell-cafe] How did you stumble on Haskell?

2007-01-29 Thread David Kirkman
On 1/28/07, Alexy Khrabrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do people stumble on Haskell? I've taught ML at UPenn, and many For some diversity ... For years I'd been using (and largely happy with) pure fortran with a little tcl thrown in for scripting. I'd played around with a few other

Re: HEAD ghci crash on ppc OS X

2007-01-16 Thread David Kirkman
Argh ... gmail totally mangled that patch. (The line that starts with loadObj(image) needs to be part of the previous line). I've put an unmangled version online at http://cass166.ucsd.edu/~david/link-patch ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

HEAD ghci crash on ppc OS X

2007-01-15 Thread David Kirkman
I just built ghc from HEAD on OS X (ppc), and get the following error when starting ghci: ---start [15:15:[EMAIL PROTECTED] compiler/stage2/ghc-inplace --interactive ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.7, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ /

Re: Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-27 Thread David Kirkman
I ran the testsuite against the current HEAD (as of saturday afternoon) and had far fewer failures. Is the last week's work supposed to have fixed so many test cases? Or are different machines giving different results? The tests that resulted in unexpected failures for greg were all run on my

Mac/PPC threaded RTS problems -- potential clue

2006-08-13 Thread David Kirkman
I managed to build ghc-6.5.20060804 on a powerpc mac, and I spent a little time Saturday night trying to work out what might be going on with the threaded RTS. Running the testsuite with make WAY=threaded1 shows many (73) failures. Many of them (the conc??? set) have to do with TVars, in

Building GHC on OS X

2006-08-08 Thread David Kirkman
Hi, I've been using ghc on Mac OS X for a while now, so when I noticed Simon Marlow's call (made last month, but I just noticed it) for people to help with OS X, I thought, why not? Well, it turns out that I can't even build ghc, so I'm not likely to end up being much help. But it would be