gum/pvm/smp status

2000-07-07 Thread kirstin reese
Hi! Could someone please tell me the status of the various parellel modes of ghc 4.08? I remember building the smp version of 4.07 a while back, and while I could build a gph program under the smp-enable compiler, and I did observe context-switches occurring more often, it did not seem to take a

Re: numericEnumFromThenTo strangeness

2000-07-07 Thread George Russell
Lennart Augustsson wrote: > By definition, if you follow the standard you can't be wrong. :) > But the standard can be wrong. Perhaps this is a typo in the report? I think I looked at this a while back. The standard is kaput. It gets even worse if you try to make sense of the definitions of suc

Re: numericEnumFromThenTo strangeness

2000-07-07 Thread Lennart Augustsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Weber writes (on the ghc-users list): > > I'm slightly puzzled about the definition of list enumerations in > > GHC (and possibly other Haskell implementations)... > > > > ``[0.0, 2 .. 9] :: [Float]'' > > ==> [0.0, 2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, 10.0] > > > > Never

Re: numericEnumFromThenTo strangeness

2000-07-07 Thread malcolm-ghc
Michael Weber writes (on the ghc-users list): > I'm slightly puzzled about the definition of list enumerations in > GHC (and possibly other Haskell implementations)... > > ``[0.0, 2 .. 9] :: [Float]'' > ==> [0.0, 2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, 10.0] > > Nevertheless, this behaviour is defined by the

Compiling ghc 4.08

2000-07-07 Thread GĂ©rard Milmeister
I get the following compile error: (My configuration is Linux kernel 2.4.0-test1, gcc 2.91.66 and ghc 4.06 installed) PWD = /home/gemi/fptools/ghc/lib/std rm -f PrelBase.o ; if [ ! -d PrelBase ]; then mkdir PrelBase; else

Re: problems ld'ing current ghc

2000-07-07 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
07 Jul 2000 00:24:01 +0900, Jens-Ulrik Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > /home/juhp/haskell/ghc/ghc/driver/../rts/libHSrts.a(Schedule.o): In function >`threadStackOverflow': > Schedule.o(.text+0x7a0): undefined reference to `PrelException_stackOverflow_closure' > /home/juhp/haskell/ghc/ghc/d

4.08 InstallShield update

2000-07-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
The profiling imports were in the wrong place in the InstallShield for 4.08 (now fixed). If you've been bitten and don't fancy re-downloading, then just move the contents of \ghc\ghc-4.08\imports into \ghc\ghc-4.08\lib\imports, and all should be fine. -- http://sc3d.org/rrt/ | wit, n. educated

RE: two questions on 4-08-notes

2000-07-07 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Sorry for the ignorance, just two questions on 4-08-notes.sgml. | | > Result type signatures now work. Check out the user guide, under Language extensions/ Scoped type variables. | > Constant folding is now done by Rules Ditto Language extensions/Rewrite rules. Constant folding is doing th

two questions on 4-08-notes

2000-07-07 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Dear GHC, Sorry for the ignorance, just two questions on 4-08-notes.sgml. > Result type signatures now work. > > [..] > > Constant folding is now done by Rules What do these two mean, or where they are explained? Maybe, you can give an example? -- Sergey Mechveliani [EMAIL PR