[Git][ghc/ghc][wip/andreask/linker_fix] 35 commits: base: don't expose GHC.Num.{BigNat, Integer, Natural}

Andreas Klebinger pushed to branch wip/andreask/linker_fix at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: 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 - - - - - 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. - - - - - 759fd15a by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-01-21T16:05:28-05:00 Don't build GHC with -Wcompat Without bumping the boot compiler the warnings it produces are often not actionable leading to pointless noise. Fixes #26800 - - - - - 3172db94 by Torsten Schmits at 2026-01-21T16:06:11-05:00 Use the correct field of ModOrigin when formatting error message listing hidden reexports - - - - - 485c12b2 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-21T16:06:54-05:00 Revert "hadrian: handle findExecutable "" gracefully" This reverts commit 1e5752f64a522c4025365856d92f78073a7b3bba. The underlying issue has been fixed in https://github.com/haskell/directory/commit/75828696e7145adc09179111a0d631b9... and present since 1.3.9.0, and hadrian directory lower bound is 1.3.9.0, so we can revert our own in house hack now. - - - - - 5efb58dc by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-21T16:07:36-05:00 rts: fix typo in TICK_ALLOC_RTS This patch fixes a typo in the `TICK_ALLOC_RTS` macro, the original `bytes` argument was silently dropped. The Cmm code has its own version of `TICK_ALLOC_RTS` not affected by this typo, it affected the C RTS, and went unnoticed because the variable `n` happened to also be available at its call site. But the number was incorrect. Also fixes its call site since `WDS()` is not available in C. - - - - - c406ea69 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-21T16:07:36-05:00 rts: remove broken & unused ALLOC_P_TICKY This patch removes the `ALLOC_P_TICKY` macro from the rts, it's unused, and its expanded code is already broken. - - - - - 34a27e20 by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-01-21T16:08:17-05:00 Make the implicit-parameter class have representational role This MR addresses #26737, by making the built-in class IP have a representational role for its second parameter. See Note [IP: implicit parameter class] in ghc-internal:GHC.Internal.Classes.IP In fact, IP is (unfortunately, currently) exposed by base:GHC.Base, so we ran a quick CLC proposal to agree the change: https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/issues/385 Some (small) compilations get faster because they only need to load (small) interface file GHC.Internal.Classes.IP.hi, rather than (large) GHC.Internal.Classes.hi. Metric Decrease: T10421 T12150 T12425 T24582 T5837 T5030 - - - - - ca79475f by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-21T16:09:00-05:00 testsuite: avoid re.sub in favor of simple string replacements This patch refactors the testsuite driver and avoids the usage of re.sub in favor of simple string replacements when possible. The changes are not comprehensive, and there are still a lot of re.sub usages lingering around the tree, but this already addresses a major performance bottleneck in the testsuite driver that might has to do with quadratic or worse slowdown in cpython's regular expression engine when handling certain regex patterns with large strings. Especially on i386, and i386 jobs are the bottlenecks of all full-ci validate pipelines! Here are the elapsed times of testing x86_64/i386 with -j48 before this patch: x86_64: `Build completed in 6m06s` i386: `Build completed in 1h36m` And with this patch: x86_64: `Build completed in 4m55s` i386: `Build completed in 4m23s` Fixes #26786. Co-authored-by: Codex - - - - - 88c93796 by Zubin Duggal at 2026-01-21T16:09:42-05:00 ghc-toolchain: Also configure windres on non-windows platforms. It may be needed for cross compilation. Fixes #24588 - - - - - 9788c0ec by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-21T16:10:24-05:00 ghci: print external interpreter trace messages to stderr instead of stdout This patch makes ghci print external interpreter trace messages to stderr instead of stdout, which is a much saner choice for diagnostic information. Closes #26807. - - - - - 0491f08a by Sylvain Henry at 2026-01-22T03:44:26-05:00 GC: don't use CAS without PARALLEL_GC on If we're not using the parallel GC, there is no reason to do a costly CAS. This was flagged as taking time in a perf profile. - - - - - 211a8f56 by Sylvain Henry at 2026-01-22T03:44:26-05:00 GC: suffix parallel GC with "par" instead of "thr" Avoid some potential confusion (see discussion in !15351). - - - - - 77a23cbd by fendor at 2026-01-22T03:45:08-05:00 Remove blanket ignore that covers libraries/ - - - - - 18bf7f5c by Léana Jiang at 2026-01-22T08:58:45-05:00 doc: update Flavour type in hadrian user-settings - - - - - 3d5a1365 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-22T08:59:28-05:00 hadrian: add missing notCross predicate for stage0 -O0 There are a few hard-coded hadrian args that pass -O0 when compiling some heavy modules in stage0, which only makes sense when not cross-compiling and when cross-compiling we need properly optimized stage0 packages. So this patch adds the missing `notCross` predicate in those places. - - - - - ee937134 by Matthew Pickering at 2026-01-22T09:00:10-05:00 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. - - - - - 1b490f5a by Zubin Duggal at 2026-01-22T09:00:53-05:00 hadrian: Add ghc-{experimental,internal}.cabal to the list of dependencies of the doc target We need these files to detect the version of these libraries Fixes #26738 - - - - - cdb74049 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-22T14:52:36-05:00 rts: avoid Cmm loop to initialize Array#/SmallArray# Previously, `newArray#`/`newSmallArray#` called an RTS C function to allocate the `Array#`/`SmallArray#`, then used a Cmm loop to initialize the elements. Cmm doesn't have native for-loop so the code is a bit awkward, and it's less efficient than a C loop, since the C compiler can effectively vectorize the loop with optimizations. So this patch moves the loop that initializes the elements to the C side. `allocateMutArrPtrs`/`allocateSmallMutArrPtrs` now takes a new `init` argument and initializes the elements if `init` is non-NULL. - - - - - 4c784f00 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-22T14:53:19-05:00 Fix testsuite run for +ipe flavour transformer This patch makes the +ipe flavour transformer pass the entire testsuite: - An RTS debug option `-DI` is added, the IPE trace information is now only printed with `-DI`. The test cases that do require IPE trace are now run with `-DI`. - The testsuite config option `ghc_with_ipe` is added, enabled when running the testsuite with `+ipe`, which skips a few tests that are sensitive to eventlog output, allocation patterns etc that can fail under `+ipe`. This is the first step towards #26799. Co-authored-by: Codex - - - - - be8e5236 by Ben Gamari at 2026-01-23T03:28:45-05:00 hadrian: Bump QuickCheck upper bound This patch bumps QuickCheck upper bound to 2.18. selftest rule manually tested to work with current latest QuickCheck-2.17.1.0. - - - - - 5aa328fb by Zubin Duggal at 2026-01-23T03:29:30-05:00 Add genindex to index.rst. This adds a link to the index in the navigation bar. Fixes #26437 - - - - - 917ab8ff by Oleg Grenrus at 2026-01-23T10:52:55-05:00 Export labelThread from Control.Concurrent - - - - - 3f5e8d80 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-23T10:53:37-05:00 ci: only push perf notes on master/release branches This patch fixes push_perf_notes logic in ci.sh to only push perf notes on master/release branches. We used to unconditionally push perf notes even in MRs, but the perf numbers in the wip branches wouldn't be used as baseline anyway, plus this is causing a space leak in the ghc-performance-notes repo. See #25317 for the perf notes repo size problem. Co-authored-by: Codex - - - - - 414b9593 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-24T07:11:51-05:00 ci: remove duplicate keys in .gitlab-ci.yml This patch removes accidentally duplicate keys in `.gitlab-ci.yml`. The YAML spec doesn't allow duplicate keys in the first place, and according to GitLab docs (https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/yaml/yaml_optimization/#anchors), the latest key overrides the earlier entries. - - - - - e5cb5491 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-24T07:12:34-05:00 hadrian: drop obsolete configure/make builder logic for libffi This patch drops obsolete hadrian logic around `Configure libffiPath`/`Make libffiPath` builders, they are no longer needed after libffi-clib has landed. Closes #26815. - - - - - 2d160222 by Simon Hengel at 2026-01-24T07:13:17-05:00 Fix typo in roles.rst - - - - - 56db94f7 by Peter Trommler at 2026-01-26T11:26:18+01:00 PPC NCG: Generate clear right insn at arch width The clear right immediate (clrrxi) is only available in word and doubleword width. Generate clrrxi instructions at architecture width for all MachOp widths. Fixes #24145 - - - - - 5957a8ad by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-01-27T06:11:40-05:00 Add operations for obtaining operating-system handles This contribution implements CLC proposal #369. It adds operations for obtaining POSIX file descriptors and Windows handles that underlie Haskell handles. Those operating system handles can also be obtained without such additional operations, but this is more involved and, more importantly, requires using internals. - - - - - 86a0510c by Greg Steuck at 2026-01-27T06:12:34-05:00 Move flags to precede patterns for grep and read files directly This makes the tests pass with non-GNU (i.e. POSIX-complicant) tools. There's no reason to use cat and pipe where direct file argument works. - - - - - 6203cc28 by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-01-27T20:14:03+01:00 rts: LoadArchive/LoadObj - refactor object verification. Fixes #26231. We now consistently call `verifyAndInitOc` to check for valid object code. Allowing us to replace the somewhat adhoc magic number checking in loadArchive with the platform specific verification logic. On windows this adds loadArchive support for AArch64/32bit COFF bigobj files. - - - - - a1ea60ad by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-01-27T20:14:03+01:00 Remove now redundant thin archive special case. - - - - - 4e457612 by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-01-27T20:14:04+01:00 RTS Linker: Refactor import lib detection on windows. - - - - - 106 changed files: - .gitignore - .gitlab-ci.yml - .gitlab/ci.sh - compiler/GHC/Builtin/Names.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/PPC/CodeGen.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/State.hs - compiler/ghc.cabal.in - docs/users_guide/9.16.1-notes.rst - docs/users_guide/exts/roles.rst - docs/users_guide/index.rst - docs/users_guide/runtime_control.rst - hadrian/doc/user-settings.md - hadrian/hadrian.cabal - hadrian/src/Context.hs - hadrian/src/Flavour.hs - hadrian/src/Hadrian/Utilities.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/Docspec.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/Documentation.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/Lint.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Builders/Configure.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Builders/Ghc.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Builders/Make.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Builders/RunTest.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Flavours/GhcInGhci.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Packages.hs - libraries/base/base.cabal.in - libraries/base/changelog.md - libraries/base/src/Control/Concurrent.hs - libraries/base/src/Data/Array/Byte.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/base/src/System/IO/OS.hs - libraries/base/src/System/Timeout.hs - libraries/base/tests/IO/all.T - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles001FileDescriptors.hs - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles001FileDescriptors.stdout - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles001WindowsHandles.hs - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles001WindowsHandles.stdout - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles002FileDescriptors.hs - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles002FileDescriptors.stderr - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles002FileDescriptors.stdin - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles002FileDescriptors.stdout - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles002WindowsHandles.hs - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles002WindowsHandles.stderr - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles002WindowsHandles.stdin - + libraries/base/tests/IO/osHandles002WindowsHandles.stdout - libraries/base/tests/perf/Makefile - libraries/ghc-bignum/ghc-bignum.cabal - libraries/ghc-compact/tests/all.T - 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/ghc-internal.cabal.in - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Classes.hs - + libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Classes/IP.hs - + libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/System/IO/OS.hs - libraries/ghc-internal/tests/backtraces/all.T - libraries/ghci/GHCi/Server.hs - rts/AllocArray.c - rts/AllocArray.h - rts/ClosureTable.c - rts/Heap.c - rts/Linker.c - rts/LinkerInternals.h - rts/PrimOps.cmm - rts/RtsFlags.c - rts/Threads.c - rts/Trace.c - rts/Weak.c - rts/include/Cmm.h - rts/include/rts/Flags.h - rts/include/stg/Ticky.h - rts/linker/LoadArchive.c - rts/linker/MachO.c - rts/linker/MachO.h - rts/linker/PEi386.c - rts/rts.cabal - rts/sm/Evac.c - rts/sm/Evac_thr.c → rts/sm/Evac_par.c - rts/sm/Scav_thr.c → rts/sm/Scav_par.c - rts/sm/Storage.c - testsuite/driver/runtests.py - testsuite/driver/testglobals.py - testsuite/driver/testlib.py - testsuite/driver/testutil.py - testsuite/tests/driver/T16318/Makefile - testsuite/tests/driver/T18125/Makefile - 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/interface-stability/ghc-experimental-exports.stdout-mingw32 - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/ghc-prim-exports.stdout - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/ghc-prim-exports.stdout-mingw32 - testsuite/tests/rts/Makefile - testsuite/tests/rts/all.T - testsuite/tests/rts/ipe/all.T - testsuite/tests/th/TH_implicitParams.stdout - + testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_compile/T26737.hs - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_compile/all.T - utils/ghc-toolchain/exe/Main.hs The diff was not included because it is too large. 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