Re: Parallel GHC on Altix?

2006-05-08 Thread Simon Marlow
Chad Scherrer wrote: I'd like to get more involved in parallel programming in Haskell, and I have access to an SGI Altix machine (a shared-memory multiprocessor). Can someone tell me, if I download a 64-bit GHC 6.5 snapshot, to what extent will parallelism just work? Specifically, I'm

GHC 6.6 and Ticket #608

2006-05-08 Thread Reilly Hayes
Any chance of getting ticket #608 onto the list for the 6.6 release?  Ticket #608 is "Make the NCG able to compile the RTS". Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding of the dependencies suggests that this is the key obstacle to dynamically linked builds on x86 platforms.  My reasoning

Failure building HEAD in libraries/base/Data/ByteString.hs

2006-05-08 Thread Reilly Hayes
I get the following error when trying to bootstrap the 6.5.20060506 snapshot from hc files (registerised):gcc -x c Data/ByteString.hc -o Data/ByteString.raw_s -S -O  -fno-defer-pop -fomit-frame-pointer  -mdynamic-no-pic  -DDONT_WANT_WIN32_DLL_SUPPORT -mdynamic-no-pic -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=605  -O

Re: WordPtr,IntPtr,IntMax,WordMax

2006-05-08 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
John Meacham: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:29:16AM +, Aaron Denney wrote: On 2006-04-29, Manuel M T Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 06.04.2006, 16:37 -0700 schrieb John Meacham: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:28:01PM -0700, John Meacham wrote: I was curious if

Re: Failure building HEAD in libraries/base/Data/ByteString.hs

2006-05-08 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
Hmm! Very interesting. Register spill classes, eh? SimonM? -- Don rfh: I get the following error when trying to bootstrap the 6.5.20060506 snapshot from hc files (registerised): gcc -x c Data/ByteString.hc -o Data/ByteString.raw_s -S -O -fno-defer-pop -fomi

Re: Failure building HEAD in libraries/base/Data/ByteString.hs

2006-05-08 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
There's been a few changes since then, perhaps try again with last night's snapshot? dons: Hmm! Very interesting. Register spill classes, eh? SimonM? -- Don rfh: I get the following error when trying to bootstrap the 6.5.20060506 snapshot from hc files (registerised):