was 6.10.3 prerelease

2009-06-20 Thread Iain Barnett
In reference to http://www.nabble.com/6.10.3-prerelease-td23346957.html I also run Mac OSX 10.4.11 (there are some left) and I experience the same problem but with the full release of 6.10.3 from source. I've read the discussion and the trac ticket at http:// hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ti

How unique is a Unique?

2009-06-20 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi all, I've been doing some work with the GHC API, and I'm kind of confused as to how Uniques are supposed to work. I've found that each Name has a Unique that is its primary identification (at least for internal names). That means that two identifiers are different iff their Uniques are differen

finalizers on handles

2009-06-20 Thread Ganesh Sittampalam
Hi, I recently spent a while debugging a problem where a program deadlocked in the non-threaded runtime, but ran fine in the threaded runtime, despite the program having no blocking FFI calls, and boiled it down to the following test case: module Main(main) where import System import System