On 07 July 2006 11:46, Christian Maeder wrote: > Simon Marlow schrieb: >> The reason we added it to the compiler was so that you could use >> programs that require -threaded under GHCi. Without it, these >> programs cannot be used with GHCi. > > Surely, running user programs is different from just compiling.
GHC and GHCi are the same binary. >> Without -threaded, all FFI calls block the other threads in the >> program, and this makes it impossible to do lots of things. > > Obviously, I only want that (my old) sequentiell things are done as > reliable (one at a time) as before. And they will be - the threaded RTS only affects FFI calls on multithreaded programs. >> What version of glibc are you using on Linux? > > glibc-devel-2.3.4-23.4 > glibc-locale-2.3.4-23.4 > glibc-info-2.3.4-23.4 > glibc-html-2.3.4-23 > glibc-2.3.4-23.4 > glibc-i18ndata-2.3.4-23.4 I guess that isn't it, I have 2.3.2 here. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users