I'd love to see this done. It's been requested several times. Simon
| -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Marlow | Sent: 16 November 2005 15:48 | To: Tomasz Zielonka | Cc: Dusan Kolar; GHC-users; Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | Subject: RE: [Haskell-cafe] GHC ignores RTS options | | On 16 November 2005 13:24, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: | | > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:09:07PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: | >>> BTW - it would be nice if it was easier to override the default RTS | >>> options when compiling the program. Perhaps a nice task for a newbie | >>> GHC developer? | >> | >> Already possible, see: | >> | >> | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/runtime-control. | >> html#rts-hooks | > | > I was aware of this, and I should write about it. | > | >> Admittedly it's a bit more fiddly than a command-line flag to GHC, | >> though. | > | > And because of this I wrote that it would be nice if it was easier :-) | | Sorry, I misread the message. | | > I've bitten several times by the default values of RTS options, | > especially the stack size limit (-K). But it was always easier to | > set GHCRTS or use +RTS -RTS, so I never used the rts-hooks. | > | > Do you think I could do this? I am not sure how difficult it would be. | | Sure, it shouldn't be too hard. You need to generate a .c file | containing the ghc_rts_opts setting, and then compile & link it into the | final binary. It's just a matter of plumbing the various bits together | in GHC's front end. | | (it might be nicer to generate Cmm and then push this through the back | end, to avoid the dependence on the C compiler, though). | | Cheers, | Simon | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
