Re: trouble building ghc-7.4 on Fedora 18 (devel) ARM

2012-05-04 Thread Jens Petersen
A late followup, just to let you know, everything is good now. Not sure if +d16 is actually essential on Fedora though guess it doesn't hurt. It is... I hope llvm will make it the default for armv7 hardware fp. So finally ghc-7.4.1 is built for Fedora ARM and working: I also had to

Re: Weird behavior of the NonTermination exception

2012-05-04 Thread Simon Marlow
On 03/05/2012 17:14, Bas van Dijk wrote: On 3 May 2012 17:31, Edward Z. Yangezy...@mit.edu wrote: Excerpts from Bas van Dijk's message of Thu May 03 11:10:38 -0400 2012: As can be seen, the putMVar is executed successfully. So why do I get the message: thread blocked indefinitely in an MVar

Re: Weird behavior of the NonTermination exception

2012-05-04 Thread Bas van Dijk
On 4 May 2012 14:12, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: The forked thread is deadlocked, so the MVar is considered unreachable and the main thread is also unreachable.  Hence both threads get sent the exception. The RTS does this analysis using the GC, tracing the reachable objects