Excerpts from Simon Marlow's message of Mon Sep 06 05:57:59 -0400 2010:
> What did you have in mind with respect to "portable equivalents of
> pthread functions"? I'm not sure we need to do anything along these
> lines at all, and I'd much rather we didn't enforce any threading
> abstraction on
So a long time ago (I think when 6.10 first came out, the problem
didn't happen with the previous version, and I think 6.10 changed how
the FFI used alignment) I filed a ghc ticket about a gc assertion
failure. Unfortunately it was so hard to reproduce and reduce to a
manageable example that I wou
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
wrote:
> Mitar, and others
>
> Yes, I've spent most of the last month working on the new type checker, and
> unless there's a major hiccup it'll be in GHC 7.0. We'll produce a release
> candidate just before ICFP.
Ohh, how exciting, the big n
On 01/09/2010 12:08, Victor Nazarov wrote:
I have some custom compilation script that uses GHC API
The aim is to extract some info from every module in dependency graph
and to write this information to the file lying near module-file.
Script goes like this:
main :: IO ()
main =
do args<- getA
On 03/09/2010 22:13, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
Excerpts from Bryan O'Sullivan's message of Fri Sep 03 17:00:03 -0400 2010:
What I am wondering is if there's a practical downside to doing this. Am I
going to accidentally kill something? This is a very important gap in the
usability of GHC with native
On 03/09/2010 22:00, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
I spent some time this morning trying to use HDBC-mysql to talk to a
database. It uses the C mysql bindings, which talks over a blocking
socket to the database server. Not surprisingly, it fails reliably when
the thread it's running in is hit by an RTS
Mitar, and others
Yes, I've spent most of the last month working on the new type checker, and
unless there's a major hiccup it'll be in GHC 7.0. We'll produce a release
candidate just before ICFP.
However, as it happens both your tests compile with GHC 6.12, if you add
ScopedTypeVariables. T
