On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:49 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 16 February 2005 14:06, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:31 +0200, Krasimir Angelov wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:01:06 +0000, Duncan Coutts > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> What's your opinion of making writing to stdout fail without > >>> raising an exception when the application is compiled with > >>> --subsystem windows?
> I've seen this behaviour vary between versions of Windows (maybe even > between versions of msvcrt, MS's C library). A strange experience we > had with the Visual Studio extension was that I was initially just doing > output to stderr from the DLL for debugging, which worked fine on my > machine but crashed on other people's machines. We had to remove all > uses of stdout/stderr from the Haskell DLL (including the runtime!) to > get it going reliably. Ok, fair enough. It sounds like with the improvements in ghc 6.4 we'll be able to turn the --subsystem windows on by default for gtk2hs when using ghc 6.4, though we'll still have to warn people not to use normal output functions. [and we'll have to fix all our demos! :-) ] Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users