RE: Windows

2018-03-23 Thread lonetiger
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

Windows

2018-03-23 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
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

Re: Question about indirectees of BLACKHOLE closures

2018-03-23 Thread Rahul Muttineni
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

Re: Question about indirectees of BLACKHOLE closures

2018-03-23 Thread Ömer Sinan Ağacan
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