Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

2008-06-01 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 01:46:43PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > Hello Serge, > > I was looking at the cabal file used to build docon, > I note the current flags are: > >ghc-options: > -fglasgow-exts -fallow-overlapping-instances > -fallow-undecidable-instances > -fno-warn-o

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-01 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi, On May 29, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Ok, I've now modified the patch and attached a new version to the ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/2013/2013.patch *BSD folks please test. I built the 20080529 snapshot with this patch and my light testing

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

2008-06-01 Thread Don Stewart
Hello Serge, I was looking at the cabal file used to build docon, I note the current flags are: ghc-options: -fglasgow-exts -fallow-overlapping-instances -fallow-undecidable-instances -fno-warn-overlapping-patterns -fwarn-unused-binds -fwarn-unused-matches -fwarn-unu

GHC 6.8.2 and large source files

2008-06-01 Thread Christian Höner zu Siederdissen
Dear Haskell users, we have an automated system that generates executable haskell source files. These files have a line count from 1,000 lines up to 28,000 lines. There is only 1 type definition and 5 functions in total in the file. We now can compile into executable code some of these programs b

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

2008-06-01 Thread Lennart Augustsson
There are no rules written down. But the fast exponentiation algorithm used by (^) assumes that (*) is associative. I also don't think that fast exponentiation should ever multiply by 1. -- Lennart On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Serge D. Mechveliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01

test for 6.8.3-may27

2008-06-01 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
About the 6.8.3 candidate of May 27, there remains the question: why it builds DoCon-2.11 considerably slower than ghc-6.8.2 (3 times, as I recall) and needs larger -M memory to build this DoCon ? Regards, - Serge Mechveliani [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

2008-06-01 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 03:34:00PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 05:39:49PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > > > > This is why res and 1*res are not equivalent in Haskell-98 for > > res :: Num a => a. > > > > Am I missing something? > > The library functions assume

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

2008-06-01 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 05:39:49PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > > This is why res and 1*res are not equivalent in Haskell-98 for > res :: Num a => a. > > Am I missing something? The library functions assume that class instances obey some unwritten laws; it's all a bit vague, but if

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

2008-06-01 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 01:13:06AM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > Hi Serge, > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:54:50PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > > This is a bug report for the ghc candidate of May 27, 2008 > > for ghc-6.8.3. > > A short program example for this bug candidate is on > > > >

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

2008-06-01 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 08:08:52PM +0200, Marc Weber wrote: > > Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them > > before the release! > Hi Ian, > > I haven't done extensive testing, but at least you can start ghci and > compile simple hello world apps on nixos 64 bit witho

Re: *BSD support in 6.8.3

2008-06-01 Thread Donn Cave
On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:43:22 -0400 Gregory Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/2013/2013.patch > > > > *BSD folks please test. > > > > I built the 20080529 snapshot with this patch and my light testing of > ghci > showed no problems (FreeB