ghc/rts/RtsUtils.h(errorHandler)

2000-01-14 Thread George Russell
What's this extern StgStablePtr errorHandler; in RtsUtils.h? It doesn't seem to be used anywhere. What's worse, it's not defined anywhere either, causing linking of GHC-compiled code to fall over. If I comment it out things work again . . .

RE: 'foreign' bug

2000-01-14 Thread malcolm-ghc
Me: > > However, it is definitely wrong for 'foreign' to be treated as a > > keyword. Instead, it is a special identifier Simon: > Tricky, at least in LALR(1). Yes, you are right of course. Backtracking parser combinators had me blinded to the sad realities of the world. :-) > There are stan

RE: 'foreign' bug

2000-01-14 Thread Simon Marlow
Malcolm writes: > Ian noted the following bug: > > > * `foreign' seems to have become a keyword ! My program > uses it as a > > variable/function name and I had to rename it to avoid a > parse error. > > I couldn't find anything about it in my documentation. > > As Michael noted, this is a c

RE: Problems Building HaskellDirect

2000-01-14 Thread Steinitz, Dominic J
Simon, The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 4.04, patchlevel 1 Dominic.

'foreign' bug

2000-01-14 Thread malcolm-ghc
Ian noted the following bug: > * `foreign' seems to have become a keyword ! My program uses it as a > variable/function name and I had to rename it to avoid a parse error. > I couldn't find anything about it in my documentation. As Michael noted, this is a consequence of the introduction of the

RE: Problems Building HaskellDirect

2000-01-14 Thread Simon Marlow
> However, I then tried "make lib" as per the installation > instructions for HaskellDirect and encountered the following errors. > > [dom@lhrtba8fd85 hdirect-0.16]$ make lib 2>&1 1>makelib.log > > Pointer.lhs:102: Variable not in scope: `toInt' > > Pointer.lhs:103: Variable not in scope: `toI

RE: some patches to CVS ghc from 2000/01/09

2000-01-14 Thread Simon Marlow
> I had to apply some patches to make today's GHC build, > they're attached. Thanks. The paths.mk bugs were fixed earlier this week, and I've incorporated your unpackCStringIO patch. Cheers, Simon

Problems Building HaskellDirect

2000-01-14 Thread Steinitz, Dominic J
-- Forwarded by Dominic Steinitz/HEATHROW/BRITISH AIRWAYS/GB on 14/01/2000 07:58 --- Dominic Steinitz 14/01/2000 07:57:47 To: glasgow-haskell-bugs cc: bcc: Subject: Problems Building HaskellDirect I successfully installed gh