Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.4 Release Candidate 1

2009-07-13 Thread Gregory Wright
Good rc1 build on OS X 10.5.7 (Leopard/intel). Couldn't run the 6.10.3 testsuite all the way through. Failed with things like => getGroupEntryForName(normal) cd ../../../libraries/unix/tests && '/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_gwright_src_macports-trunk_dports_lang_ghc-beta/work/ghc-6.

Re: ghci debugger: showing function argumetns when stopped at its definition

2009-07-13 Thread Isaac Dupree
Peter Hercek wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: On 10/07/2009 15:31, Peter Hercek wrote: Hi, It would be cool if ghci debugger could grab not only the free variables in the selected expression but in one case a bit more. The case is when we stop at a function definition the first time (when just enter

Re: ghci debugger: showing function argumetns when stopped at its definition

2009-07-13 Thread Peter Hercek
Simon Marlow wrote: On 10/07/2009 15:31, Peter Hercek wrote: Hi, It would be cool if ghci debugger could grab not only the free variables in the selected expression but in one case a bit more. The case is when we stop at a function definition the first time (when just entering it). The proble

Re: Using the ghc-api to run more than one instance of ghc simultaneously

2009-07-13 Thread Marc Weber
> Yes, it is a known limitation. It ought to be documented somewhere. > > There are two problems: > > 1. GHC is not thread-safe. There are some items of global state (the > NameCache and the PackageInterfaceTable) that should be protected. > It's not a trivial matter to do this - we

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.4 Release Candidate 1

2009-07-13 Thread Christian Maeder
Ian Lynagh wrote: > We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.10.4: > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.4-rc1/ Worked like a charm for me under x86 Solaris. Cheers Christian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow

Re: Using the ghc-api to run more than one instance of ghc simultaneously

2009-07-13 Thread Simon Marlow
On 12/07/2009 16:49, Daniel GorĂ­n wrote: Hi I'm trying to use the GHC API to have several instances of GHC's interpreter loaded simultaneously; each with its own loaded modules, etc. However, this doesn't seem to work well when two instances have loaded modules with the same name. I'm including

Re: ghci debugger: showing function argumetns when stopped at its definition

2009-07-13 Thread Simon Marlow
On 10/07/2009 15:31, Peter Hercek wrote: Hi, It would be cool if ghci debugger could grab not only the free variables in the selected expression but in one case a bit more. The case is when we stop at a function definition the first time (when just entering it). In this case it should provide bi