Matthew Pickering pushed to branch wip/fix-ghc-experimental at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: f25e2b12 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-14T11:10:39-05:00 testsuite: remove obsolete --ci option from the testsuite driver This patch removes the obsolete `--ci` option from the testsuite driver: neither the CI scripts nor hadrian ever invokes the testsuite driver with `--ci`, and the perf notes are always fetched to the `refs/notes/perf` local reference anyway. - - - - - 7964763b by Julian Ospald at 2026-01-14T11:11:31-05:00 Fix fetch_cabal * download cabal if the existing one is of an older version * fix FreeBSD download url * fix unpacking on FreeBSD - - - - - 6b0129c1 by Julian Ospald at 2026-01-14T11:11:31-05:00 Bump toolchain in CI - - - - - 0f53ccc6 by Julian Ospald at 2026-01-14T11:11:31-05:00 Use libffi-clib Previously, we would build libffi via hadrian and bundle it manually with the GHC bindist. This now moves all that logic out of hadrian and allows us to have a clean Haskell package to build and link against and ship it without extra logic. This patch still retains the ability to link against a system libffi. The main reason of bundling libffi was that on some platforms (e.g. FreeBSD and Mac), system libffi is not visible to the C toolchain by default, so users would require settings in e.g. cabal to be able to compile anything. This adds the submodule libffi-clib to the repository. - - - - - 5e1cd595 by Peng Fan at 2026-01-14T11:12:26-05:00 NCG/LA64: add support for la664 micro architecture Add '-mla664' flag to LA664, which has some new features: atomic instructions, dbar hints, etc. 'LA464' is the default so that unrecognized instructions are not generated. - - - - - c56567ec by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-01-15T23:19:04+00:00 Add evals for strict data-con args in worker-functions This fixes #26722, by adding an eval in a worker for arguments of strict data constructors, even if the function body uses them strictly. See (WIS1) in Note [Which Ids should be strictified] I took the opportunity to make substantial improvements in the documentation for call-by-value functions. See especially Note [CBV Function Ids: overview] in GHC.Types.Id.Info Note [Which Ids should be CBV candidates?] ditto Note [EPT enforcement] in GHC.Stg.EnforceEpt among others. - - - - - 9719ce5d by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-01-15T23:19:04+00:00 Improve `interestingArg` This function analyses a function's argument to see if it is interesting enough to deserve an inlining discount. Improvements for * LitRubbish arguments * exprIsExpandable arguments See Note [Interesting arguments] which is substantially rewritten. - - - - - 7b616b9f by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-16T06:45:00-05:00 compiler: fix regression when compiling foreign stubs in the rts unit This patch fixes a regression when compiling foreign stubs in the rts unit introduced in 05e25647f72bc102061af3f20478aa72bff6ff6e. A simple revert would fix it, but it's better to implement a proper fix with comment for better understanding of the underlying problem, see the added comment for explanation. Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com> - - - - - c343ef64 by Sylvain Henry at 2026-01-16T06:45:51-05:00 base: remove GHC.JS.Prim.Internal.Build (#23432) See accepted CLC proposal https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/issues/329 - - - - - 29c0aceb by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-01-16T17:18:11-05:00 Improve newtype unwrapping Ticket #26746 describes several relatively-minor shortcomings of newtype unwrapping. This MR addresses them, while also (arguably) simplifying the code a bit. See new Note [Solving newtype equalities: overview] and Note [Decomposing newtype equalities] and Note [Eager newtype decomposition] and Note [Even more eager newtype decomposition] For some reason, on Windows only, runtime allocations decrease for test T5205 (from 52k to 48k). I have not idea why. No change at all on Linux. I'm just going to accept the change. (I saw this same effect in another MR so I think it's a fault in the baseline.) Metric Decrease: T5205 - - - - - 8b59e62c by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-01-16T17:18:52-05:00 testsuite: Widen acceptance window for T5205. Fixes #26782 - - - - - 9e5e0234 by mangoiv at 2026-01-17T06:03:03-05:00 add a new issue template for getting verified To reduce spam created by new users, we will in future not grant any rights but reporting issues to new users. That is why we will have to be able to verify them. The added issue template serves that purpose. - - - - - b18b2c42 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-17T06:03:44-05:00 llvm: fix split sections for llvm backend This patch fixes split sections for llvm backend: - Pass missing `--data-sections`/`--function-sections` flags to llc/opt. - Use `@llvm.compiler.used` instead of `@llvm.used` to avoid sections being unnecessarily retained at link-time. Fixes #26770. ------------------------- Metric Decrease: libdir size_hello_artifact size_hello_unicode ------------------------- Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com> - - - - - ebf66f67 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-17T13:16:50-05:00 Update autoconf scripts Scripts taken from autoconf a2287c3041a3f2a204eb942e09c015eab00dc7dd - - - - - 598624b9 by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-01-17T13:17:32-05:00 CString.hs: Update incorrect comment. Fixes #26322 - - - - - eea2036b by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-18T10:00:49-05:00 libraries: bump haskeline submodule to 0.8.4.1 This patch bumps the haskeline submodule to 0.8.4.1 which includes an important fix for an ANSI handling bug on Windows (https://github.com/haskell/haskeline/pull/126). - - - - - 87d8f6c2 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-18T10:01:30-05:00 hadrian: replace default -H32m/-H64m with -O64M to improve mutator productivity Most hadrian build flavours pass `-H32m`/`-H64m` to GHC as conventional wisdom to improve mutator productivity and reduce GC overhead. They were inherited from the legacy Make build system, and there used to be make flags to instrument a build process with `-Rghc-timing` option to collect GC stats of each GHC run from stderr. It's time to revisit whether there are better defaults for `-H32m`/`-H64m`, and this patch changes it to `-O64M` which indeed improves mutator productivity based on real statistics. `-O64M` is more aggressive than `-H64m`; it allows the old generation to grow to at least 64M before triggering major GC and reduces major GC runs. The stats of a clean build with `validate` flavour and `-H64m`: ``` h64m.log matched RTS stat lines: 5499 sum MUT cpu : 2400.808 s sum GC cpu : 1378.292 s sum MUT elapsed : 2788.253 s sum GC elapsed : 1389.233 s GC/MUT cpu ratio : 0.574 (GC is 57.4% of MUT) GC/MUT elapsed ratio : 0.498 (GC is 49.8% of MUT) GC fraction of (MUT+GC) cpu : 36.5% GC fraction of (MUT+GC) elapsed : 33.3% per-line GC/MUT cpu ratio: median 0.691, p90 1.777 per-line GC/MUT elapsed ratio: median 0.519, p90 1.081 ``` The stats of a clean build with `validate` flavour and `-O64M`: ``` o64m.log matched RTS stat lines: 5499 sum MUT cpu : 2377.383 s sum GC cpu : 1127.146 s sum MUT elapsed : 2758.857 s sum GC elapsed : 1135.587 s GC/MUT cpu ratio : 0.474 (GC is 47.4% of MUT) GC/MUT elapsed ratio : 0.412 (GC is 41.2% of MUT) GC fraction of (MUT+GC) cpu : 32.2% GC fraction of (MUT+GC) elapsed : 29.2% per-line GC/MUT cpu ratio: median 0.489, p90 1.099 per-line GC/MUT elapsed ratio: median 0.367, p90 0.806 ``` Mutator time is roughly in the same ballpark, but GC CPU time has reduced by 18.22%, and mutator productivity has increased from 63.5% to 67.8%. - - - - - 8372e13d by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-18T10:02:12-05:00 rts: remove unused .def files from rts/win32 This patch removes unused .def files from `rts/win32`, given we don't build .dll files for rts/ghc-internal/ghc-prim at all. Even when we resurrect win32 dll support at some point in the future, these .def files still contain incorrect symbols anyway and won't be of any use. - - - - - f6af485d by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-18T10:03:19-05:00 .gitmodules: use gitlab mirror for the libffi-clib submodule This patch fixes .gitmodules to use the gitlab mirror for the libffi-clib submodule, to make it coherent with other submodules that allow ghc developers to experiment with wip branches in submodules for ghc patches. Fixes #26783. - - - - - 41432d25 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-18T10:05:13-05:00 hadrian: remove the horrible i386 speedHack When hadrian builds certain rts objects for i386, there's a horrible speedHack that forces -fno-PIC even for dynamic ways of those objects. This is not compatible with newer versions of gcc/binutils as well as clang/lld, and this patch removes it. Fixes #26792. - - - - - 323eb8f0 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-18T21:48:19-05:00 hadrian: enable split sections for cross stage0 This patch fixes a minor issue with `splitSectionsArgs` in hadrian: previously, it's unconditionally disabled for stage0 libraries because it's not going to be shipped in the final bindists. But it's only true when not cross compiling. So for now we also need to enable it for cross stage0 as well. - - - - - 3fadfefe by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-01-18T21:49:01-05:00 RTS: Document -K behaviour better - - - - - 30f442a9 by Teo Camarasu at 2026-01-20T13:57:26-05:00 base: don't expose GHC.Num.{BigNat, Integer, Natural} We no longer expose GHC.Num.{BigNat, Integer, Natural} from base instead users should get these modules from ghc-bignum. We make this change to insulate end users from changes to GHC's implementation of big numbers. Implements CLC proposal 359: https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/issues/359 - - - - - 75a9053d by Teo Camarasu at 2026-01-20T13:58:07-05:00 base: deprecate GHC internals in GHC.Num Implements CLC proposal: https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/issues/360 - - - - - 9534b032 by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-01-20T13:58:50-05:00 ghc-experimental: Update Changelog I tried to reconstruct a high level overview of the changes and when they were made since we introduced it. Fixes #26506 Co-authored-by: Teo Camarasu <teofilcamarasu@gmail.com> - - - - - 346f2f5a by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-20T13:59:30-05:00 hadrian: remove RTS options in ghc-in-ghci flavour This patch removes the RTS options passed to ghc in ghc-in-ghci flavour, to workaround command line argument handling issue in hls/hie-boot that results in `-O64M` instead of `+RTS -O64M -RTS` being passed to ghc. It's not a hadrian bug per se, since ghc's own ghc-in-ghci multi repl works fine, but we should still make sure HLS works. Closes #26801. - - - - - 344e8da2 by Matthew Pickering at 2026-01-21T17:35:47+00:00 Fix ghc-experimental GHC.Exception.Backtrace.Experimental module This module wasn't added to the cabal file so it was never compiled or included in the library. - - - - - 111 changed files: - .gitlab/ci.sh - .gitlab/generate-ci/gen_ci.hs - + .gitlab/issue_templates/get-verified.md - .gitlab/jobs.yaml - .gitmodules - compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/Config.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToLlvm.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToLlvm/Base.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/FamInstEnv.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Opt/Arity.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Opt/Simplify/Utils.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Opt/SpecConstr.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Opt/WorkWrap.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Opt/WorkWrap/Utils.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Tidy.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Unfold.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Utils.hs - compiler/GHC/CoreToStg/Prep.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/CodeOutput.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Config/CmmToAsm.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/DynFlags.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Pipeline/Execute.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Session.hs - compiler/GHC/Linker/Loader.hs - compiler/GHC/Linker/Unit.hs - compiler/GHC/Stg/EnforceEpt.hs - compiler/GHC/Stg/Lint.hs - compiler/GHC/StgToCmm/Closure.hs - compiler/GHC/StgToCmm/Expr.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Instance/Family.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Equality.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Monad.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/Id.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/Id/Info.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/Id/Make.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/State.hs - config.guess - config.sub - docs/users_guide/runtime_control.rst - docs/users_guide/using.rst - hadrian/doc/flavours.md - hadrian/hadrian.cabal - hadrian/src/Builder.hs - hadrian/src/Packages.hs - hadrian/src/Rules.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/Documentation.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/Generate.hs - − hadrian/src/Rules/Libffi.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/Register.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/Rts.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/SourceDist.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Builders/Cabal.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Builders/Ghc.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Builders/SplitSections.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Default.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Flavours/Benchmark.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Flavours/Development.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Flavours/GhcInGhci.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Flavours/Performance.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Flavours/Quick.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Flavours/QuickCross.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Flavours/Quickest.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Flavours/Validate.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Packages.hs - − libffi-tarballs - libraries/base/base.cabal.in - libraries/base/changelog.md - libraries/base/src/Data/Array/Byte.hs - − libraries/base/src/GHC/JS/Prim/Internal/Build.hs - libraries/base/src/GHC/Num.hs - − libraries/base/src/GHC/Num/BigNat.hs - − libraries/base/src/GHC/Num/Integer.hs - − libraries/base/src/GHC/Num/Natural.hs - libraries/base/src/System/CPUTime/Utils.hs - libraries/ghc-bignum/ghc-bignum.cabal - libraries/ghc-experimental/CHANGELOG.md - libraries/ghc-experimental/ghc-experimental.cabal.in - libraries/ghc-experimental/src/GHC/Exception/Backtrace/Experimental.hs - libraries/ghc-experimental/src/GHC/TypeNats/Experimental.hs - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/CString.hs - libraries/haskeline - + libraries/libffi-clib - packages - rts/include/rts/ghc_ffi.h - rts/rts.buildinfo.in - rts/rts.cabal - − rts/win32/libHSffi.def - − rts/win32/libHSghc-internal.def - − rts/win32/libHSghc-prim.def - testsuite/driver/perf_notes.py - testsuite/tests/deriving/should_fail/T8984.stderr - testsuite/tests/deriving/should_fail/deriving-via-fail.stderr - testsuite/tests/deriving/should_fail/deriving-via-fail4.stderr - testsuite/tests/deriving/should_fail/deriving-via-fail5.stderr - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/base-exports.stdout - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/base-exports.stdout-javascript-unknown-ghcjs - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/base-exports.stdout-mingw32 - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/base-exports.stdout-ws-32 - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/ghc-experimental-exports.stdout - testsuite/tests/perf/should_run/all.T - testsuite/tests/simplCore/should_compile/T18013.stderr - + testsuite/tests/simplCore/should_compile/T26722.hs - + testsuite/tests/simplCore/should_compile/T26722.stderr - testsuite/tests/simplCore/should_compile/all.T - + testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_compile/T26746.hs - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_compile/all.T - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/T15801.stderr - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/T22924b.stderr - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/TcCoercibleFail.hs - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/TcCoercibleFail.stderr - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/all.T The diff was not included because it is too large. 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