RE: Constraint solver iterations

2017-04-27 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of | amin...@gmail.com | Sent: 27 April 2017 16:18 | To: ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Constraint solver iterations | | To build the 'vivid' package (on Hackage) with recent versions of GHC | (I believe the problem is with 8.0

Constraint solver iterations

2017-04-27 Thread amindfv
To build the 'vivid' package (on Hackage) with recent versions of GHC (I believe the problem is with 8.0+, didn't see it before then), I need to compile with -fconstraint-solver-iterations=0. (0 meaning unbounded) However, I noticed today that the GHC docs say "Typically one iteration