Hi Simon,
You need
export MSYSTEM=MINGW64
in your bash profile.
Regards,
Tamar
From: Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 22:21
To: ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: Windows
I’ve just got a new laptop (the old one’s hard disk died) so I’m trying to get
to the point of
I've just got a new laptop (the old one's hard disk died) so I'm trying to get
to the point of being able to build GHC again.
I'm currently stuck here:
./configure
configure: loading site script /usr/local/etc/config.site
checking for gfind... no
checking for find... /usr/bin/find
checking
Hi Omer,
As per my understanding, a BLACKHOLE can point to a THUNK when an exception
is thrown. An exception walks up the stack and overwrites the blackholes
pointed to by the update frames as it walks with an stg_raise closure. That
way, if any concurrent thread happens to evaluate a thunk that
Thanks Simon, that's really helpful.
A few more questions:
As far as I understand the difference between
- BLACKHOLE pointing to a TSO
- BLACKHOLE pointing to a BLOCKING_QUEUE
is that in the former we don't yet have any threads blocked by the BLACKHOLE
whereas in the latter we have and the