Re: Tracing idea

2011-02-20 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Excerpts from Tyson Whitehead's message of Sun Feb 20 07:14:56 -0500 2011: > I believe a back trace on the actual call stack is generally considered not > that useful in a lazy language as it corresponds to the evaluation sequence, > That is, it is demand centric while written code is production

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-20 Thread Don Stewart
Good work! The HP team is ready to go! -- Don igloo: > > We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.0.2: > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.2-rc2/ > > This includes the source tarball, the Windows installer, and bindists > for 32bit and 64bit Intel OS X, amd64/

ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.2 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-20 Thread Ian Lynagh
We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.0.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.2-rc2/ This includes the source tarball, the Windows installer, and bindists for 32bit and 64bit Intel OS X, amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/FreeBSD and i386/FreeBSD. Please test as muc

Re: Tracing idea

2011-02-20 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On February 19, 2011 12:11:13 Edward Z. Yang wrote: > I was thinking it might be useful if we had a per-thread circular buffer in > memory for which we pushed a pointer to the info table we had just entered. > In the event of a crash, you could dump the contents of the buffer to see > what code ha