Simon Peyton Jones pushed to branch wip/T27844 at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: c406135c by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-10-01T06:57:28-04:00 RTS: Update flag parsing/handling: Using 0 as argument to any of these flags now resets the flags setting to default: - ``-n0`` disables nursery chunking. - ``-K0`` (or a bare ``-K``) removes the stack size limit. - ``-M0`` removes the heap size limit. - ``-H0`` resets the suggested heap size, including the nursery scaling set by ``-H``. - ``-AL0`` makes the large object allocation limit follow ``-A`` again. GC Generations are now limited to 64. -n larger than -A now emits a warning and disables chunking. Fixes #27830 #27829 - - - - - 984ee82b by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-10-01T06:58:10-04:00 Fix MultiLayerModules timeout multiplier. We accidentally used the compile multiplier for ghci commands which use the run timeout setting to set the timeout. Fixes #26263 and #27796. - - - - - 50a9cf26 by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-10-01T06:58:10-04:00 testsuite: Include runtime in JUnit report. - - - - - e358619f by Alan Zimmerman at 2026-10-01T06:59:01-04:00 EPA: Use EpaLocation in EpVirtualBraces Haddock processing uses EpLayout.EpVirtualBraces to record the current layout column, for allocating haddock comments correctly. For exact printing, we need the line as well as the col, so we know how many lines to skip when the indented code block starts. This commit updates EpLayout.EpVirtualBraces so that it carries an EpaLocation instead of just the Int column, to allow it to be used for both purposes. It is a simple mechanical change, with no other impact, but it allows us to use EpLayout instead of AnnListLayout in AnnList, in the next commit in this series. - - - - - 1d2a26ee by Andrew Lelechenko at 2026-10-01T20:22:04-04:00 Remove bitSize from MINIMAL pragma of class Bits Cf. https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/issues/441 The function is deprecated for 12 years and has a default implementation, yet it was never removed from the MINIMAL pragma, putting library authors in a very awkward position. Let's finally remove bitSize from MINIMAL. - - - - - 3cc21e4c by Hannes Siebenhandl at 2026-10-01T20:22:59-04:00 Add regression test for #27641 - - - - - c35096f5 by Hannes Siebenhandl at 2026-10-01T20:23:00-04:00 Don't `:add` modules the loader will reject Only home modules can be actually added to the loader context, thus we only accept the module if it belongs to a home unit. - - - - - a563cb27 by Simon Jakobi at 2026-10-02T17:37:36-04:00 ci: accept modified changelog.d entries in lint-changelog The changelog guide says to extend an existing entry rather than add a new one when the feature is already documented. lint_changelog only counted added files, so such MRs failed before the validator ran. Fixes #27779. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 - - - - - 03082cd4 by Simon Jakobi at 2026-10-02T17:38:17-04:00 changelog.d: Fix warning flag name in the semaphore-v2 entry The entry refers to -Wsemaphore-version-mismatch, which does not exist. The warning GHC emits when it cannot use a -jsem semaphore, including on a protocol version mismatch, is -Wsemaphore-open-failure. Context: !15729, #25087 Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 - - - - - a93705ee by Simon Jakobi at 2026-10-02T17:38:17-04:00 changelog.d: Fix the CLC proposal link in the T27455 entry The entry used the Sphinx :ref: role with a URL as its target. :ref: resolves only internal labels, so the generated release notes would show the proposal name without a link. Use the plain hyperlink form like the other entries. Context: !16274, #27455 Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 - - - - - 54381079 by Hannes Siebenhandl at 2026-10-02T17:39:01-04:00 Extend the `TrustOverlay` for wired-in units The TrustOverlay only contained the `UnitId` of all on-disk units. However, wired-in units are referred to by their wired-in unit id, which is not the same as the on-disk unit id. Thus, trust checks for wired-in units failed because the lookup was using the wired-in unit, which wasn't present in the `TrustOverlay`. We fix #27834, by copying the trust info for wired-in unit ids. - - - - - f8cfb1a5 by Hécate Kleidukos at 2026-10-04T19:36:39+02:00 [CLC 341] Strict variants of mutable types This commit is the implementation of CLC Proposal 341 https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/issues/341 - - - - - 575c4bc6 by Rodrigo Mesquita at 2026-10-05T12:32:02-04:00 ttg: HsModuleName in the AST, ModuleName in GHC This commit makes the AST fully independent from GHC by parsing a "module name" as an `HsModuleName (= HText)` rather than constructing an `ModuleName (= FastString)` straight away. In the GHC side, everything remains as a `ModuleName`. We turn AST `HsModuleName`s into fast strings with the cheap `mkFastStringShortText` when we process the AST for manipulation within the compiler. There are no performance regressions introduced by this approach. This is the final piece of #21592 Alternative plans were discussed in gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/16546#note_694647, but the Simon suggested one won in simplicity and performance when compared against my attempt at implementing my original plan of having a family `ModuleNameP`. - - - - - b3b89d32 by mangoiv at 2026-10-05T22:03:32-04:00 hadrian: Persist the used flavour name in the build root (#20650) This executes the idea proposed in #20650, teaching Hadrian to persist the flavour used to build a build root. This both makes use of multiple build roots more ergonomic (as the user no longer needs to repeat themselves) and avoids a tiresome foot-gun (forgetting to specify a flavour, often wholly invalidating a build root). Closes #20650. Co-authored-by: Sylvain Henry <sylvain@haskus.fr> - - - - - f977837b by mangoiv at 2026-10-05T22:04:21-04:00 configure: fix sed script and subst tooldir script Fixes #27672 Adds sanity checking for SUBST_TOOLDIR Metric Decrease: LinkableUsage01 MultiLayerModulesTH_OneShot T10547 T12234 T12425 T13035 T13820 T18140 T18730 T18923 T9198 TcPlugin_RewritePerf mhu-perf - - - - - f1cb08be by Hannes Siebenhandl at 2026-10-05T22:05:03-04:00 Prepend in-memory unit database for backpack The packageDbFlags are stored in reverse order. Thus, prepending will ensure that the in-memory unit database is the last item on the unit database stack. Further, the in-memory unit database needs to be able to shadow units from earlier unit databases in the unit database stack. Moreover, a `-clear-package-db` would remove the in-memory database if it weren't the last item on the stack. Closes #27835 - - - - - 8d49ed42 by Kazu Yamamoto at 2026-10-06T19:37:25-04:00 Do not leave standard file descriptors free at startup (#24450) A process may be started with stdout closed -- `prog >&-` from a shell does exactly that. Nothing then reserves descriptor 1, and open(), pipe() and socket() hand out the lowest free descriptor, so the next descriptor the runtime creates for itself takes it: the ticker's pipe, or a capability's IO manager control pipe. 'GHC.Internal.IO.StdHandles.stdout' is a CAF, built the first time the program writes to stdout, which is long after that has happened. It builds a 'Handle' over descriptor 1, which now belongs to the runtime, and nothing reports an error because the descriptor is perfectly good. The program then writes its output into the runtime's own plumbing. What that looks like from the outside is a hang. The descriptor the Handle has taken over is the read end of a pipe, so poll() for POLLOUT on it never says yes and epoll_ctl() accepts a registration for it; the thread waiting to write blocks for ever. Closing the Handle at exit closes the runtime's descriptor, which is worse: the ticker then fails on every tick. 'hs_init_ghc' now opens /dev/null onto whichever of descriptors 0, 1 and 2 are closed, before the runtime creates any descriptor of its own. Each is opened for the access that descriptor would normally have, read-only for 0 and write-only for 1 and 2, so that writing to 'stdin' or reading from 'stdout' still fails rather than quietly succeeding against /dev/null. See Note [Standard file descriptors must be open]. Moving only the descriptors the runtime opens would not do: the first file the program itself opened would land on the free number instead. The fix has to leave no free number. A program run this way therefore finds stdout connected to /dev/null rather than failing with EBADF on the first write, which is what such a program would get from most other language runtimes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> - - - - - 65bcf9e9 by Simon Jakobi at 2026-10-06T19:38:09-04:00 changelog: Repair the sentence describing #27477 The description read "programs using could crash", the object of "using" having been lost. The synopsis already says which programs are affected, so drop the dangling word. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 - - - - - 6a6de9da by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-10-08T10:26:26+01:00 Refactor and simplify solver's unification code Ticket #27844 showed that GHC's constraint solver could miss an occurs check, and thereby build an infinite type. This patch significantly simplifes the code in GHC.Tc.Solver.Equality.canEqCanLHSFinish_try_unification GHC.Tc.Solver.Equality.canEqCanLHSFinish_no_unification It is now significantly simpler, and requires much less subtle reasoning to understand. Main changes * If `canEqCanLHSFinish_try_unification` fails to unify, it now /always/ calls `canEqCanLHSFinish_no_unification` rather than trying to finish the job itself. * `GHC.Tc.Solver.Monad.checkTypeEq` is moved from Monad into Equality, and renamed to `GHC.Tc.Solver.Equality.checkTypeEqNoUnification`. * `canEqCanLHSFinish_no_unification` calls `checkTypeEqNoUnification` to test the invariants for an inert equality. Before this MR there was a special case for `do_not_prevent_rewriting`, but that has gone; instead it's just a consequence of the flags passed to `checkTyEqRhs`, documented in the `PuOK` case of `canEqCanLHSFinish_no_unification`. * There is only one bit of "swap back" code, in `finish_no_unify` in `canEqCanLHSFinish_try_unification. Previously this code was duplicated. * `kickOutAfterFillingCoercionHole` should account for equalities with a TyFamLHS. See (KOC5) in Note [Kick out after filling a coercion hole] * No need to gather coercion holes in the `PuOK` case of `canEqCanLHSFinish_no_unification`. 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