Adding core-libraries, whose bailiwick this is.
Simon
From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of David Feuer
Sent: 29 October 2014 00:24
To: ghc-devs
Subject: Is USE_REPORT_PRELUDE still useful?
A lot of code in GHC.List and perhaps elsewhere compiles differently
On 29 Oct 2014, at 00:24, David Feuer wrote:
A lot of code in GHC.List and perhaps elsewhere compiles differently
depending on whether USE_REPORT_PRELUDE is defined. Not all code differing
from the Prelude implementation. Furthermore, I don't know to what extent, if
any, such code
: 29 October 2014 00:24
To: ghc-devs
Subject: Is USE_REPORT_PRELUDE still useful?
A lot of code in GHC.List and perhaps elsewhere compiles differently
depending on whether USE_REPORT_PRELUDE is defined. Not all code differing
from the Prelude implementation. Furthermore, I don't know to what
Ack! That -is- a somewhat scary invisible backdoor dependency. :/
We ripped out a lot of unused and untestable ifdefs for other compilers from
base a couple of years back, I'd be curious if this was already affected.
Any idea where the code for the report generation lies?
-Edward
On Oct 29,
A lot of code in GHC.List and perhaps elsewhere compiles differently
depending on whether USE_REPORT_PRELUDE is defined. Not all code differing
from the Prelude implementation. Furthermore, I don't know to what extent,
if any, such code actually works these days. Some of it certainly was not
