On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 04:35:17PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > >Next best idea is to make GHC use repeatable temporary .c& .o file > >names for each invocation. There is already a unique temporary > >directory where all the the temporary files are created. This suggests > >I do not need to worry about adversarial races. So GHC just need to > >avoid racing with itself. I see a couple of options: > > > > 1) newTempName should create a new subdirectory for each call and > > the return a fixed name inside of this (so > > /tmp/ghc28016_0/ghc28016_0.c > > above would become /tmp/ghc28016_0/0/dummy.c) > > 2) mkExtraCObj could compute some hash function of its xs > > argument (C program text) and then create a file named, e.g. > > /tmp/ghc28016_0/38eb8d8eb0abe9c828ba60983e2a97f7a069ec41.c > > > >Which of these two looks better? Other ideas? > > The first is easier, and would be fine with me.
An alternative could be to just strip the single `symbol' off the object file (using something like strip -N ...). I didn't yet test this for real. Ciao, Kili _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users