Questions about pointers in GHC

2018-03-09 Thread Xuanrui Qi
Hi all, I have a few questions about heap-allocated memory pointers in GHC. Both code and data live in the heap, and both can have pointers to other objects. However, according to my understanding, most heap-allocated objects would be immutable. Moreover even if objects might be mutated, most p

NumericUnderscores extension was added to Cabal for ghc 8.6

2018-03-09 Thread Takenobu Tani
Dear devs, The `NumericUnderscores` extension was added to Cabal for ghc 8.6. [1] I'm sending this mail referring to `BlockArguments`. [2] [1] https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/5130 [2] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2018-February/015341.html Regards, Takenobu __

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1 released

2018-03-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Vassil Ognyanov Keremidchiev writes: > I saw there is ARM Aarch64 build, which is pretty cool! But will there be a > ARMv7 (32bit build) as well? > I do hope so. There have been a number of false-starts but hopefully the build that is currently running will finish. Unfortunately getting a working

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1 released

2018-03-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Niklas Larsson writes: > Hi! > > It says on the download page that the Windows versions is “excluding > the Windows 10 Creator’s Update”. I’m assuming that is a copy-paste > error from the release that fixed the Windows 10 CU bug. > Oh dear, yes. Thank you for noticing this. Cheers, - Ben si

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1 released

2018-03-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Sven Panne writes: > 2018-03-08 17:57 GMT+01:00 Ben Gamari : > >> The GHC developers are very happy to announce the 8.4.1 release of >> Glasgow Haskell Compiler. [...] > > > Just a few tiny remarks regarding "base": > >* > https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.4.1-

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1 released

2018-03-09 Thread Niklas Larsson
Hi! It says on the download page that the Windows versions is “excluding the Windows 10 Creator’s Update”. I’m assuming that is a copy-paste error from the release that fixed the Windows 10 CU bug. Regards, Niklas > 8 mars 2018 kl. 17:57 skrev Ben Gamari : > > > The GHC developers are very

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1 released

2018-03-09 Thread Sven Panne
2018-03-08 17:57 GMT+01:00 Ben Gamari : > The GHC developers are very happy to announce the 8.4.1 release of > Glasgow Haskell Compiler. [...] Just a few tiny remarks regarding "base": * https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.4.1-notes.html#included-libraries says t