Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6.1 Release Candidate

2007-04-11 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello, On Tuesday 10 April 2007 16:41, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6.1. > ... A few comments to the source bundles http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070410-src.tar.bz2 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-

Re[2]: FreeBSD/amd64 registerised running

2007-04-11 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Chris, Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 12:23:35 PM, you wrote: > After I upgrade to 6.6.1 (using OS X on PPC) then I will make new versions of > regex-compat and regex-tdfa. The thing I have to fix is that the current > "unstable" regex-tdfa depends on the "unstable" regex-base and I have to ma

Re: FreeBSD/amd64 registerised running

2007-04-11 Thread Gregory Wright
Just a further note on the FreeBSD/amd64 port. I have the mangler fixed up now, so the only remaining issue is the linker. I hope to send patches soon. Best Wishes, Greg ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http:/

Re: Wanted: warning option for usages of unary minus

2007-04-11 Thread Isaac Dupree
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Marlow wrote: > I definitely think that -1# should be parsed as a single lexeme. > Presumably it was easier at the time to do it the way it is, I don't > remember exactly. > > I'd support a warning for use of prefix negation, or alternatively y

Re: FreeBSD/amd64 registerised running

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
Simon Marlow wrote: > Chris Kuklewicz wrote: >> Could the solution be to depend on a pure Haskell regex implementation >> instead >> of on a regex-posix / Posix.hsc and the system regex library? > > Yes, as I mentioned, ticket 1160 > (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1160) is for replaci

Re: Wanted: warning option for usages of unary minus

2007-04-11 Thread Simon Marlow
I definitely think that -1# should be parsed as a single lexeme. Presumably it was easier at the time to do it the way it is, I don't remember exactly. I'd support a warning for use of prefix negation, or alternatively you could implement the Haskell' proposal to remove prefix negation complet

Re: FreeBSD/amd64 registerised running

2007-04-11 Thread Simon Marlow
Chris Kuklewicz wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: Aha. Text/Regex/Posix.hs is generated from Text/Regex/Posix.hsc by hsc2hs, but this is done on the *host* rather than the *target* when bootstrapping, and thus generates the wrong results. If you'd run hsc2hs on the target, then Text/Regex/Posix.hs wo