Re: 6.4 snapshot installer available

2005-03-04 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
New installer available that includes all STABLE changes up until 20:00 UTC today: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6-4-20050304.msi ( md5.sig: 022bfcaae335b718bdc59014d58b39a0 ) --sigbjorn - Original Message - From: "Sigbjorn Finne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: x86_64 port

2005-03-04 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
simonmar: > On 04 March 2005 16:59, John Goerzen wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:57:04PM -, Simon Marlow wrote: > >> On 04 March 2005 14:04, John Goerzen wrote: > My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too long before > we have a registerised port of GHC, and possi

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-03-04 Thread Keean Schupke
Further to my last point, what if the top level module is Main... ghci Main.hs and that includes a main function, and pragmas, so that main runs when ghci is finished loading (automatically). If main runs automatically then the context of ghci must be the Main module, so why would the options pragm

Re: x86_64 port

2005-03-04 Thread Wolfgang Thaller
On 4-Mar-05, at 11:57 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Don't hold your breath, I have some bad news. It seems that gcc is still generating incorrect code for register variables (or maybe it's broken again?). So maybe this will be the first NCG-only port of GHC :-). Death to the Mangler! Cheers, Wolfgang __

Re: GHC 6.4 Release Candidate Binary for Mac OS X

2005-03-04 Thread Wolfgang Thaller
On 4-Mar-05, at 11:35 AM, Malcolm Wallace wrote: Wolfgang Thaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've uploaded a Mac OS X installer based on the stable tree from March 2nd + the patches I committed yesterday at: http://opeongo.cas.mcmaster.ca/~wolfgang/GHC-6.4.20050302.pkg.zip $ ghc --version d

RE: x86_64 port

2005-03-04 Thread Simon Marlow
On 04 March 2005 16:59, John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:57:04PM -, Simon Marlow wrote: >> On 04 March 2005 14:04, John Goerzen wrote: My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too long before we have a registerised port of GHC, and possibly a native code

Re: GHC 6.4 Release Candidate Binary for Mac OS X

2005-03-04 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Wolfgang Thaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've uploaded a Mac OS X installer based on the stable tree from March > 2nd + the patches I committed yesterday at: > > http://opeongo.cas.mcmaster.ca/~wolfgang/GHC-6.4.20050302.pkg.zip $ ghc --version dyld: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.4/ghc-6.4 c

Re: x86_64 port

2005-03-04 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:57:04PM -, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 04 March 2005 14:04, John Goerzen wrote: > >> My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too long before we > >> have a registerised port of GHC, and possibly a native code > >> generator... > > > > excellent > > Don't h

RE: x86_64 port

2005-03-04 Thread Simon Marlow
On 04 March 2005 14:04, John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:38:47AM -, Simon Marlow wrote: >>> Even if you're not running Debian, there are tools available to >>> convert a .deb to a RPM or tgz package. Or, you can easily unpack a >>> deb using only ar(1) and tar(1). >> >> My am

GHC 6.4 Release Candidate Binary for Mac OS X

2005-03-04 Thread Wolfgang Thaller
I've uploaded a Mac OS X installer based on the stable tree from March 2nd + the patches I committed yesterday at: http://opeongo.cas.mcmaster.ca/~wolfgang/GHC-6.4.20050302.pkg.zip This package is built with support for dynamic libraries (some human intervention was required to build it). Mac u

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-03-04 Thread Keean Schupke
Simon Marlow wrote: On 04 March 2005 12:58, Keean Schupke wrote: There can only be one top level module in ghci (there can only be one module name before the '>' prompt - that modules options should be in effect. No, you can have multiple top-level module scopes in effect. See the GHCi doc

Re: x86_64 port

2005-03-04 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:38:47AM -, Simon Marlow wrote: > > Even if you're not running Debian, there are tools available to > > convert a .deb to a RPM or tgz package. Or, you can easily unpack a > > deb using only ar(1) and tar(1). > > My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too

RE: GHC 6.4 release candidates available (breakage on x86-64)

2005-03-04 Thread Simon Marlow
On 02 March 2005 05:08, Brian Strand wrote: > Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: >> bstrand: >> >>> Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: >>> bstrand: > Simon Marlow wrote: > > >> Just to let you know, there are a number of open bug reports for >> GHC on the x86_64 platform

Re: x86_64 port

2005-03-04 Thread Ralf Hinze
> My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too long before we > have a registerised port of GHC, and possibly a native code generator... That would be great! I just assembled an amd64 box and I am mssing ghci badly. Let me know if I can be of any help (testing ..). Cheers, Ralf _

RE: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-03-04 Thread Simon Marlow
On 04 March 2005 12:58, Keean Schupke wrote: > There can only be one top level module in ghci (there can only > be one module name before the '>' prompt - that modules options > should be in effect. No, you can have multiple top-level module scopes in effect. See the GHCi documentation. > Simon

Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-03-04 Thread Keean Schupke
There can only be one top level module in ghci (there can only be one module name before the '>' prompt - that modules options should be in effect. The whole point of putting options at the top of the source file is so that the user/compiler of the code does not need to know which specific options

Re: x86_64 port

2005-03-04 Thread Gour
Simon Marlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My amd64 hardware arrived yesterday, shouldn't be too long before we > have a registerised port of GHC, and possibly a native code generator... :- As soon as you have some pre-alpha release, I'm ready to test ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Registered Linux

ANNOUNCE: The GHC Survey 2005

2005-03-04 Thread Simon Marlow
Just ahead of the 6.4 release, we've put together a GHC user survey. The idea is to help us get a better understanding of who uses GHC, what for, what aspects of GHC they consider most valuable, and what they would most like to see improved. The survey is anonymous (if you wish), and should take a

RE: GHC 6.4 release candidates available

2005-03-04 Thread Simon Marlow
I think GHC's behaviour is right here. To use the flag settings from the source module on the command-line would be wrong: for example, when the module is compiled, its implementation (and therefore flag settings) must be hidden. Also, as Simon pointed out, there might be multiple modules in scop

RE: x86_64 port

2005-03-04 Thread Simon Marlow
On 02 March 2005 14:15, John Goerzen wrote: > Kip Macy gmail.com> writes: > >> I've followed the instructions to the letter. > > Debian has had a working amd64 package of ghc for some time now. It > is built out of the standard source base for it. You can find that > at: > > http://ftp.debi

[ ghc-Feature Requests-1155875 ] Arbitrary function sections

2005-03-04 Thread SourceForge.net
Feature Requests item #1155875, was opened at 2005-03-03 16:36 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=358032&aid=1155875&group_id=8032 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Prior

Re: 6.4 snapshot installer available

2005-03-04 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi Sigbjorn. I wrote: > I built CVS head GHC with this package and mucked around a little bit. > The > only problem I've come across so far is that an objectio library >application > I have crashes on take-off when built with this compiler (not necessarily to > do with objectio of course). It