Re: User preferences lost between Hugs upgrades on Windows

2006-09-23 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi, a) shouldn't there be a way from within Hugs (or GHCi) to export/import settings? That can be added, but no one will use it - too much effort, not obvious thats what needs to be done. b) shouldn't there be an installation option checking for compatible old settings and offering t

Re: User preferences lost between Hugs upgrades on Windows

2006-09-23 Thread Claus Reinke
[some possibly shared hugs/ghci concerns] The settings on Windows are stored under a registry key for each specific release. This means that if you install WinHugs, carefully set up everything, then upgrade, you loose all your settings. part of the reason was also to enable multiple independen

Re: bug in mallocForeignPtrBytes (both 6.4 and 6.6)

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 13:58 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello glasgow-haskell-users, > > the attached program show up the bug in mallocForeignPtrBytes (and > newPinnedByteArray#) implementation - it allocates two times more > memory as requested. The bug seen both on 6.6rc and june 6.4 windows

bug in mallocForeignPtrBytes (both 6.4 and 6.6)

2006-09-23 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello glasgow-haskell-users, the attached program show up the bug in mallocForeignPtrBytes (and newPinnedByteArray#) implementation - it allocates two times more memory as requested. The bug seen both on 6.6rc and june 6.4 windows builds, namely: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6

Re: Year 2038 problem in GHC 6.4.2 runtime

2006-09-23 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Cyril, Friday, September 22, 2006, 6:16:44 PM, you wrote: > As far as I can see, the current (6.4.2) GHC runtime > suffers the year 2038 problem; that is, the System.Time > module does not support dates from 2038 onwards > (the code below reproduces the problem). there is new Time library,