RE: ghc-5.02.2

2001-12-19 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
"in due course" is a native English way of saying "I'm not quite sure" :-) We are planning a release before Christmas. Whether we will actually get it out in the next 3 days remains to be seen, but if not then it'll be early in the new year. Simon | -Original Message- | From: Sven Eri

RE: ghc 5.02.2 FFI question

2002-04-08 Thread Simon Marlow
Hi Bernie, > I've been playing with the FFI in GHC 5.02.2 > > I'm not sure if I'm using it correctly because I get a space leak > in my program. I just tried your example and it seems to run in constant space here with 5.02.2. The code looks fine - this isn't something we really envisaged peop

Re: ghc 5.02.2 FFI question

2002-04-09 Thread Bernard James POPE
Hi Simon, (posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in case anyone else is reading this). > I just tried your example and it seems to run in constant space here > with 5.02.2. The code looks fine - this isn't something we really > envisaged people doing with the RTS API, but there's no real problem > with i

RE: ghc 5.02.2 FFI question

2002-04-09 Thread Simon Marlow
Hi Bernie, Thanks for a very well researched bug report. I've looked into it, and there is indeed a space leak (well, two in fact). The reason I didn't notice before was because I was looking at the heap stats rather than using top; one of the leaks was with memory from malloc(), and the other

RE: GHC 5.02.2 installation/compilation problems

2002-01-25 Thread Simon Marlow
Hi Nick, > I just installed GHC 5.02.2 (actually, the latest version > from CVS), and > had a strange problem. My first attempt worked ok, but I > screwed something > up, so I junked it and started again from scratch. > > This time, it died part-way through the "make boot" step for ghc > itse

RE: GHC 5.02.2 installation/compilation problems

2002-01-25 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Simon Marlow wrote: > Nothing springs to mind, unless you had explicitly set > $(ProjectsToBuild) in your build.mk, and left out glafp-utils. It > usually isn't necessary to set $(ProjectsToBuild) as it defaults to > building all the projects in the current tree. Aha, that

RE: GHC 5.02.2 installation/compilation problems

2002-01-25 Thread Simon Marlow
> > > Also, when I try to compile for ticky-ticky profiling... > > > > Just set GhcLibWays=t, you don't have to set > GhcCompilerWays too (this > > is for building the compiler itself in a different way). > > Unless I want to ticky-ticky profile the compiler itself, yes? Yup... if you want to

RE: ghc-5.02.2-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2

2002-04-08 Thread Simon Marlow
> I downloaded and installed ghc-5.02.2-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 on my > RedHat Linux 6.2 box (because RPM won't install the relevant RPMs). > However, when I run "ghci," I get the message ... "GHC ... > 5.02.1" ... > > What do you think is happening here? What do you get from 'ghc --versio

RE: ghc-5.02.2-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2

2002-04-08 Thread Byron Hale
At 11:40 AM 4/8/2002 +0100, you wrote: > > I downloaded and installed ghc-5.02.2-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 on my > > RedHat Linux 6.2 box (because RPM won't install the relevant RPMs). > > However, when I run "ghci," I get the message ... "GHC ... > > 5.02.1" ... > > > > What do you think is ha

RE: ghc-5.02.2-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2

2002-04-17 Thread Byron Hale
At 12:58 PM 4/8/2002 -0700, you wrote: At 11:40 AM 4/8/2002 +0100, you wrote: > I downloaded and installed ghc-5.02.2-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 on my > RedHat Linux 6.2 box. > However, when I run "ghci," I get the message ... "GHC ... > 5.02.1" ... ghc-5.02.3-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 fro

RE: ghc-5.02.2 cannot parse string gaps

2002-02-18 Thread Simon Marlow
> Section 2.6. of the Haskell report says: > > A string may include a "gap"---two backslants enclosing white > characters---which is ignored. This allows one to write long > strings on > more than one line by writing a backslant at the end of one > line and at > the start of the next. For examp

RE: ghc-5.02.2 cannot parse string gaps

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Marte
> > ghc-5.02.2 cannot parse string gaps. > > It accepts \ at the end of a line but not at the beginning of the > > following line. > > It works ok here. There's a well-known problem with string gaps in conjunction with >CPP; see > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/set/options-phases.html#