Re: [GHC] #289: class context restrictions in GADT types not assumed

2006-05-12 Thread GHC
#289: class context restrictions in GADT types not assumed +--- Reporter: ashley-y |Owner: simonpj Type: bug | Status: assigned Priority: normal

[GHC] #770: Huge array leads to various crashes

2006-05-12 Thread GHC
#770: Huge array leads to various crashes -+-- Reporter: dons| Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone:

Re: [GHC] #770: Huge array leads to various crashes

2006-05-12 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello GHC, Friday, May 12, 2006, 2:48:41 PM, you wrote: Component: Runtime System |Version: 6.5 20:32 dons:: array (minBound,maxBound) (zip [0..] (repeat ())) :: Array Int () i'm pretty sure that it's a bug in array library, because it first constructs array of 2^31*4 = 0

bug?

2006-05-12 Thread Levent Erkok
for the following program: module Bug wheref :: Maybe Bool f = g () g () = do f error bug? If I ask ghci (version: 6.4.1) what the type of g is, it says: *Bug :t g g :: () - Maybe Bool

Re: Failure building HEAD in libraries/base/Data/ByteString.hs

2006-05-12 Thread Reilly Hayes
As of 6.5.20050610 this still occurs on both the intel mac and intel linux (Gcc 4.0.1 gcc 4.0.2 respectively). Setting -fno-inline for gcc has no effect. -reilly hayes On May 9, 2006, at 1:20 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Often I find these are the result of gcc inlining something, or

Re: Failure building HEAD in libraries/base/Data/ByteString.hs

2006-05-12 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
Thanks, I'm looking into it. -- Don rfh: As of 6.5.20050610 this still occurs on both the intel mac and intel linux (Gcc 4.0.1 gcc 4.0.2 respectively). Setting -fno-inline for gcc has no effect. -reilly hayes On May 9, 2006, at 1:20 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Often I find these

RE: WordPtr,IntPtr,IntMax,WordMax

2006-05-12 Thread Simon Marlow
On 12 May 2006 00:47, John Meacham wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:57:30PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: On the other hand, keeping intermediate Doubles to 80-bit precision is both (a) non-portable and (b) unpredictable (the programmer doesn't know which intermediates are going to be stored in

Re: WordPtr,IntPtr,IntMax,WordMax

2006-05-12 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
simonmar: On 12 May 2006 00:47, John Meacham wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:57:30PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: On the other hand, keeping intermediate Doubles to 80-bit precision is both (a) non-portable and (b) unpredictable (the programmer doesn't know which intermediates are going

Re: WordPtr,IntPtr,IntMax,WordMax

2006-05-12 Thread Simon Marlow
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: simonmar: On 12 May 2006 00:47, John Meacham wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:57:30PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: On the other hand, keeping intermediate Doubles to 80-bit precision is both (a) non-portable and (b) unpredictable (the programmer doesn't know

Re: Failure building HEAD in libraries/base/Data/ByteString.hs

2006-05-12 Thread Simon Marlow
I'm pretty sure this is to do with calls to strlen() from Data.ByteString. Can you check for sure that gcc is being passed -fno-builtin? (use ghc -v). Failing that, we might have to use a private version of strlen() that gcc doesn't try to inline. Cheers, Simon Reilly Hayes wrote:

Re: WordPtr,IntPtr,IntMax,WordMax

2006-05-12 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
john: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Especially since even: checking Haskell type for intmax_t... not supported checking Haskell type for uintmax_t... not supported aren't universal :) Well, yes. Any suggestions for what to do here? Make

Re[2]: Parallel GHC on Altix?

2006-05-12 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 4:12:18 PM, you wrote: The GC is currently single-threaded, but we have an intern who started here this week (Roshan James) who is working on a parallel implementation of the GC. GREAT! if you browse Intel/AMD news, you should know that they plan to

Re: Parallel GHC on Altix?

2006-05-12 Thread Simon Marlow
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: moreover, afaiu, this means that ghc-compiled programs will no more stall for several seconds doing major GC that is also very important for any user-interactive program (especially games :) ) Unfortunately it won't completely remove the latency of a major GC, although

GHC Hackathon

2006-05-12 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Friends, A couple of weeks ago Simon M advertised the possibility that he and I might run a GHC Hackathon, in Portland, later this year prior to ICFP (Sept 14-16 or thereabouts). The idea is that we'd give an extended tutorial about GHC's glorious innards. Then we'd have some hacking time in

Re: Failure building HEAD in libraries/base/Data/ByteString.hs

2006-05-12 Thread Reilly Hayes
Gentlemen, ghc -v was not required, as I am building this using .hc files from another host. Adding -fno-builtin to the CC opts did resolve the problem. Furthermore, I believe I have confirmed that strlen is the problem by succesfully compiling the library using -fno-builtin- strlen

HEAD: Problem Linking genapply in 6.5.20060510

2006-05-12 Thread Reilly Hayes
I'm continuing in my quest to produce a clean build of GHC for Mac intel. I'm using registerised .hc files built on 386 linux. I suspect today's problem is pretty easy to figure out for a GHC expert, but I'm not. When I try to build utils/genapply, the link fails because the symbols

Re: HEAD: Problem Linking genapply in 6.5.20060510

2006-05-12 Thread Esa Ilari Vuokko
On 5/13/06, Reilly Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I suspect today's problem is pretty easy to figure out for a GHC expert, but I'm not. When I try to build utils/genapply, the link fails because the symbols _GHCziList_lvl22_closure and _GHCziList_zdwlen_info are undefined. I'll include the

Re: Failure building HEAD in libraries/base/Data/ByteString.hs

2006-05-12 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
Simon, how do you want to proceed with this? Just add -fno-builtin-strlen to the .hc bootstrappping CC flags? -- Don rfh: Gentlemen, ghc -v was not required, as I am building this using .hc files from another host. Adding -fno-builtin to the CC opts did resolve the problem.

[Haskell] timing/timeout (how to express that in Haskell)

2006-05-12 Thread Johannes Waldmann
What is the idiomatic way to say in (ghc) Haskell: run this computation for at most x seconds (e. g. it returns Boolean; imagine a primality test) so I want something :: Int - a - Maybe a with the guarantee that the result is Just x with x in whnf, or Nothing. I guess one answer is that's

Re: [Haskell] timing/timeout (how to express that in Haskell)

2006-05-12 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
waldmann: What is the idiomatic way to say in (ghc) Haskell: run this computation for at most x seconds (e. g. it returns Boolean; imagine a primality test) so I want something :: Int - a - Maybe a with the guarantee that the result is Just x with x in whnf, or Nothing. I guess one

Re: [Haskell] timing/timeout (how to express that in Haskell)

2006-05-12 Thread Johannes Waldmann
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: forkIO + killThread threadDelay OK that's nice and solves my problem. Thanks! Is the delay measured on the wall clock or on the user (per-process) clock? -- -- Johannes Waldmann -- Tel/Fax (0341) 3076 6479/80 -- http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~waldmann/

Re: [Haskell] timing/timeout (how to express that in Haskell)

2006-05-12 Thread Mirko Rahn
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: watchdogIO :: Int -- milliseconds - IO a -- expensive computation - IO a -- cheap computation - IO a I'm not satisfied by the given function completely. Suppose the wrappers for pure computations watchdog1 :: Int -

Re: [Haskell] timing/timeout (how to express that in Haskell)

2006-05-12 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
rahn: Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: watchdogIO :: Int -- milliseconds - IO a -- expensive computation - IO a -- cheap computation - IO a I'm not satisfied by the given function completely. Suppose the wrappers for pure computations

Re: [Haskell] timing/timeout (how to express that in Haskell)

2006-05-12 Thread Arjen van Weelden
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: rahn: Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: watchdogIO :: Int -- milliseconds - IO a -- expensive computation - IO a -- cheap computation - IO a I'm not satisfied by the given function completely. Suppose the wrappers for pure

Re: [Haskell] REMINDER: HCA Report (extended deadline: 15 May 2006)

2006-05-12 Thread Andres Loeh
If you would extend the deadline to sometime after May 23, when the accepted Haskell.org SoC applications are revealed, you could perhaps get a lot of new projects to the list. I would rather not do this. It is already later than in the previous years for the May edition, and due to other

Re: [Haskell] timing/timeout (how to express that in Haskell)

2006-05-12 Thread Johannes Waldmann
Arjen van Weelden wrote: Personally, I'm often surprised by the laziness introduced by Maybe. Yes. That's why I chose the return type Boolean in my original post, and I included the remark on Just x with x in whnf. Mirko used a list, where whnf is not enough. PS: I am still curious: does

Re: [Haskell] timing/timeout (how to express that in Haskell)

2006-05-12 Thread Mirko Rahn
PS: I am still curious: does threadDelay use the wall clock or the per-process clock (CPU time)? And regardless of the answer - how could one obtain the opposite behaviour? (I don't find this discussed in the visible docs. Or am I missing something?) I think it uses wall clock time. Proof:

Re[2]: [Haskell] timing/timeout (how to express that in Haskell)

2006-05-12 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Mirko, Friday, May 12, 2006, 4:42:02 PM, you wrote: PS: I am still curious: does threadDelay use the wall clock or the per-process clock (CPU time)? I think it uses wall clock time. Proof: And regardless of the answer - how could one obtain the opposite behaviour? (I don't find this

Re: [Haskell] timing/timeout (how to express that in Haskell)

2006-05-12 Thread kahl
It's just annoying that turning a partial function into a total one looses so much strictness, since it prevents strictness propagation. Of course, this is easily solved using a `strict' Maybe: data Perhaps a = Just' !a | Nothing' Are other people experiencing the same thing, or

[Haskell] GHC Hackathon

2006-05-12 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Friends, A couple of weeks ago Simon M advertised the possibility that he and I might run a GHC Hackathon, in Portland, later this year prior to ICFP (Sept 14-16 or thereabouts). The idea is that we'd give an extended tutorial about GHC's glorious innards. Then we'd have some hacking time in

RE: WordPtr,IntPtr,IntMax,WordMax

2006-05-12 Thread Simon Marlow
On 12 May 2006 00:47, John Meacham wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:57:30PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: On the other hand, keeping intermediate Doubles to 80-bit precision is both (a) non-portable and (b) unpredictable (the programmer doesn't know which intermediates are going to be stored in

Re: WordPtr,IntPtr,IntMax,WordMax

2006-05-12 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
simonmar: On 12 May 2006 00:47, John Meacham wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:57:30PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: On the other hand, keeping intermediate Doubles to 80-bit precision is both (a) non-portable and (b) unpredictable (the programmer doesn't know which intermediates are going

Re: WordPtr,IntPtr,IntMax,WordMax

2006-05-12 Thread John Meacham
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Especially since even: checking Haskell type for intmax_t... not supported checking Haskell type for uintmax_t... not supported aren't universal :) Well, yes. Any suggestions for what to do here? Make a best guess?

Re: WordPtr,IntPtr,IntMax,WordMax

2006-05-12 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
john: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Especially since even: checking Haskell type for intmax_t... not supported checking Haskell type for uintmax_t... not supported aren't universal :) Well, yes. Any suggestions for what to do here? Make

Re[2]: Class System current status

2006-05-12 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Stephanie, Thursday, May 11, 2006, 5:45:15 PM, you wrote: - We're already in that state. There *is* a lot of Haskell code that uses FDs, it's just not Haskell 98 code. Whenever ATs take over, we'll still have to deal with this code. are you sure about *lots* ? i seen only 3-4 ones

Re: Class System current status

2006-05-12 Thread Johannes Waldmann
- We're already in that state. There *is* a lot of Haskell code that uses FDs, it's just not Haskell 98 code. Whenever ATs take over, we'll still have to deal with this code. are you sure about *lots* ? i seen only 3-4 ones (monad transformers, collections, may be arrays, my streams) and

Re[2]: Class System current status

2006-05-12 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Johannes, Friday, May 12, 2006, 4:18:29 PM, you wrote: = Partial p i b | p i - b where ... -- (*) (*) A funny visual aspect of FDs is the absurd syntax. On the left of |, the whitespace is (type arg) application, but on the right, it suddenly denotes sequencing (tupling) i

RE: Class System current status

2006-05-12 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| So it looks like we're stuck at pretty much the same proposals for the | class system. ... | More generally, our discussion about the class system seems to be | stalled. How should we to come to a decision? I summarise my view of the state of play in the message below, which I see I did not

Re[2]: Class System current status

2006-05-12 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Friday, May 12, 2006, 8:05:25 PM, you wrote: My suggestion is this: * Specify MPTCs in the main language * Specify FDs in an Appendix (with some reasonably conservative interpretation of FDs). * A Haskell' implementation should implement the Appendix, and

Re: Class System current status

2006-05-12 Thread Ben Rudiak-Gould
Johannes Waldmann wrote: class ( Show p, ToDoc i, Reader b, ToDoc b, Measure p i b ) = Partial p i b | p i - b where ... -- (*) (*) A funny visual aspect of FDs is the absurd syntax. On the left of |, the whitespace is (type arg) application, but on the right, it suddenly denotes

Re: Class System current status

2006-05-12 Thread Stephanie Weirich
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: My suggestion is this: * Specify MPTCs in the main language * Specify FDs in an Appendix (with some reasonably conservative interpretation of FDs). * A Haskell' implementation should implement the Appendix, and programmers can write programs against it.

Re: Class System current status

2006-05-12 Thread Henrik Nilsson
Hi all, Stephanie wrote: Simon, Why is an Appendix is better than just a footnote in the Standard that says we aren't sure, one way or the other, whether FDs will stay in the language for ever. Why do we need this extra structure? I'm worried that this extra structure could be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell + Windows API = wuh?

2006-05-12 Thread Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza
It has two problems: 1- It is a very straightforward wrapper. It's not very Haskell-friendly. Which might be a good thing or not, I'm not yet sure. It could use some more type-safety. 2- It won't allow you to do work on a thread separate from your message-loop thread, as any self-respecting

Re: [Haskell-cafe] develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Brian Hulley
Donn Cave wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006, Brian Hulley wrote: ... -- catenate all files in a specified directory catenate outputFile dir = withDir dir $ ls = cat outputFile So, you would apply this like catenate result /etc/stuff ? String

Re: [Haskell-cafe] develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Brian Hulley
Jeremy Shaw wrote: At Thu, 11 May 2006 23:05:14 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: Of course the above could no doubt be improved but surely it is already far easier to understand and much more powerful than the idiosyncratic text based approach used in UNIX shells (including rc). The idea of

[Haskell-cafe] Re: develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Max Vasin
Brian == Brian Hulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Some other possibilities are: Brian 1) Every command returns a pair consisting of result and return Brian code IMHO the distinction between command's output (to stdout and stderr) and its return code is one of the faults in UNIX shells.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Ben Rudiak-Gould
Brian Hulley wrote: Donn Cave wrote: (cd /etc/stuff; cat * result) Well the problem here is that the command leaves you in /etc/stuff so you have to remember this when you subsequently execute another command. No it doesn't. The parentheses around the command sequence cause it to run in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Donn Cave
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote: ... For simple commands and pipes, the bash syntax is perfect. For anything nontrivial, I use some other language anyway. I long ago wrote a Perl script to do a far more general form of the renaming example you gave above. As far as I know, the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Udo Stenzel
Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote: My reaction to this thread is the same as Donn Cave's: even after reading through the whole thread, I don't understand what a Haskell shell is supposed to be. I'd like one as a scripting environment, a bit like scsh, just strongly typed and easier on the eyes.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Brian Hulley
Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote: Brian Hulley wrote: Well someone had to define the meaning of basename so if we make the definition of renif similarly built-in the comparison is between ls = mapM_ (renif txt hs) and for a in *.txt; do mv $a $(basename $a .txt); done This comparison is

[Haskell-cafe] RE: transactional cache

2006-05-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Albert Lai: Thanks. I got the poit more or less; Each invocation creates a new IORef instance. UnsafePerformIO appears to generate a unique IORef that can be shared (sorry for my imperative vocabulary, I´m sill contaminated by al these evil languages ;). I tried with usafePerformIO NewTVar v

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Brian Hulley
Udo Stenzel wrote: I'd like one as a scripting environment, a bit like scsh, just strongly typed and easier on the eyes. Haskell as interactive shell would be a nightmare indeed, having to type 'system foo' instead of simply 'foo' for everyday commands just won't cut it. This seems to be your

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Donn Cave
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Brian Hulley wrote: Udo Stenzel wrote: I'd like one as a scripting environment, a bit like scsh, just strongly typed and easier on the eyes. Haskell as interactive shell would be a nightmare indeed, having to type 'system foo' instead of simply 'foo' for everyday

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Brian Hulley
Donn Cave wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Brian Hulley wrote: Udo Stenzel wrote: I'd like one as a scripting environment, a bit like scsh, just strongly typed and easier on the eyes. Haskell as interactive shell would be a nightmare indeed, having to type 'system foo' instead of simply 'foo' for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread John Meacham
I have only been skimming this thread so sorry if this was already posted: http://www.webcom.com/~haahr/es/es-usenix-winter93.html es is a shell roughly based on rc but with higher order functions and a functional nature in general. It is quite interesting and could serve as inspiration.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: develop new Haskell shell?

2006-05-12 Thread Mats Jansborg
Brian Hulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Donn Cave wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Brian Hulley wrote: Udo Stenzel wrote: I'd like one as a scripting environment, a bit like scsh, just strongly typed and easier on the eyes. Haskell as interactive shell would be a nightmare indeed, having to type

Re: [Haskell-cafe] RE: transactional cache

2006-05-12 Thread Evan Martin
On 5/13/06, Alberto G. Corona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: notglobal = newIORef True main = do a - notglobal b - notglobal Thanks. I got the poit more or less; Each invocation creates a new IORef instance. Another way of looking at this, that might be more instructive, is that