Wolfgang Jeltsch pushed to branch wip/jeltsch/improve-closure-property-check at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: 9e7739ab by Simon Jakobi at 2026-09-03T13:45:43-04:00 Add -Wimplicit-field-strictness (#16836) This opt-in warning fires when a data constructor field lacks an explicit strictness annotation (`!` or `~`). It complements the LazyFieldAnnotations extension (4762a8bf30f) from GHC proposal 752, which makes `~` annotations available for this purpose. Deciding which fields to report requires their levity, so the check runs after typechecking. To keep the noise down, the diagnostic is emitted once per data declaration, grouped by constructor. Closes #16836. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5 - - - - - 6a44d591 by mangoiv at 2026-09-03T13:46:22-04:00 simplifier: remove a bogus `assert` in `rebuild_app'` in `GHC.CoreToStg.Prep.cpeApp`. Prior to this commit commit 08bc245be70d95801bc1138804ed1de9474fbdc0 Author: sheaf <sam.derbyshire@gmail.com> Date: Sat Feb 28 16:30:43 2026 +0100 Clean up join points, casts & ticks This commit shores up the logic dealing with casts and ticks occurring in between a join point binding and a jump any `PlaceRuntime` ticks we observed were profiling ticks, even though that isn't necessary. The more liberal rules in the above commit allow e.g. breakpoint ticks (which are valid PlaceRuntime ticks) to legitimately appear in an argument position. Fixes #27556 - - - - - eaa95a6f by Andrei Borzenkov at 2026-09-04T08:08:40-04:00 Parentheses in prefix GADT constructors (#27423) Updated `splitLHsGadtTy` to allow looking through the parentheses for inner binders. General example of a code pattern that's allowed now: data S a where MkS :: (forall a. S a) That should work now with any combination of nested foralls and parentheses. We don't perform parenthesis unwrapping for record GADT constructors in accordance with GHC Proposal #402. To this end `con_inner_bndrs` no longer stores plain forall telescopes: `[HsForAllTelescope pass]` is replaced with `[LHsGadtTelescope pass]`, a new `HsArg`-style type whose `HsGadtForAll` holds an inner telescope and whose `HsGadtPar` holds a pair of parentheses. The parentheses carry no meaning for renaming or type checking; the only reason to record them is exact-printing. Updated `pprConDecl` to improve the `parse == parse . ppr . parse` property of GADT pretty-printing. The pretty printer can now output code that's similar to this: data T a where MkT1 :: (forall a. T a) MkT2 :: forall . forall a. T a These are special cases of inner forall binders for prefix GADT constructors, when we have either implicit or zero explicit outer binders. - - - - - 639456a8 by Evgeny Malyshev at 2026-09-04T08:09:25-04:00 HsPat: Add spacing to unary tuple patterns Use hsep when printing unary boxed TuplePat applications so that the MkSolo constructor is separated from its argument. The old hcat rendered wildcard and parenthesized arguments as MkSolo_ and MkSolo(). Add T27034 to exercise the HsPat splice-dump path with wildcard and variable arguments, and update existing affected golden output. Fixes #27034 Assisted-By: OpenAI Codex - - - - - 2908ab36 by Simon Jakobi at 2026-09-05T07:22:17-04:00 X86 NCG: use btr/bts/btc for single-bit operations Previously the Cmm patterns x & ~(1 << i) x | (1 << i) x ^ (1 << i) compiled to mov/shl/not/and-style sequences of 3-4 instructions. Now they compile to a single btr, bts or btc, matching what C compilers produce. When the bit index is a literal, constant folding has already collapsed these patterns into ones with a literal mask, such as x & 0xfffffeffffffffff for x & ~(1 << 40). Such masks are now also compiled to a bit-test instruction when they don't fit in an imm32 and would otherwise have to be loaded into a register first. For a variable bit index, this applies only when the shift is unchecked (uncheckedShiftL#, Data.Bits.unsafeShiftL): the bounds-checked shiftL used by e.g. the default clearBit/setBit/complementBit implementations wraps the shift in a bounds mask that this optimisation does not see through. With a literal index, the bounds mask is constant-folded away, so the checked operations benefit too. See Note [Bit-test instructions] in GHC.CmmToAsm.X86.CodeGen. Fixes #25233. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5 - - - - - c673ecf0 by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-09-05T07:22:59-04:00 Move HsStatic free-var test to typechecker A `static` form should have no free *term* variables, but it can have free *type* variables. Alas, the renamer does not really know what is a term variable and what is a type variable, because of required type arguments. This patch moves the test to the typechecker, which does know. Addresses #27664 - - - - - 5939ceaf by sheaf at 2026-09-05T22:06:18-04:00 Windows: enforce path convention in ./configure As detailed in Note [MSYS paths] in Hadrian.Utilities, the standing convention (using Windows-style paths with forward slashes) is now enforced in ./configure instead of within Hadrian, removing the need for 'cygpath' calls within Hadrian. Fixes #26683 - - - - - a6061455 by sheaf at 2026-09-05T22:06:18-04:00 Hadrian: introduce ExeSpawnPath Specific details about the filepath used to specify the executable to spawn with CreateProcess matters on Windows: whether we use forward or backward slashes, a leading ./, or an absolute path changes how the executable is found. This commit introduces 'ExeSpawnPath' which is a path that is guaranteed to be found when spawning a process. All command invocations now go through this type to ensure the path has been properly sanitised. See Note [NeedCurrentDirectoryForExePath] in Hadrian.Utilities. The same treatment is applied to hsc2hs. Updates hsc2hs submodule. - - - - - e28313e3 by sheaf at 2026-09-05T22:07:06-04:00 Preserve tick ordering in 'tickTickedExpr' 'GHC.Core.Utils.tickTickedExpr' tries to combine a tick 't1' into an existing stack of ticks 't2s'. There are two situations: 1. 't1' is subsumed by a tick in 't2s': drop it. 2. A tick in 't2s' is subsumed by 't1', say 't2'. This commit ensures that in case (2) we keep 't1' on the outside instead of replacing 't2' at its position in the stack. This avoids re-ordering source notes (which was the cause of #27749). This fixes a regression introduced in 2dadf3b0d05. Fixes #27749 - - - - - 3172f557 by sheaf at 2026-09-05T22:07:06-04:00 Consistently prefer local source note ticks GHC.Cmm.DebugBlock.cmmDebugGen (DWARF annotations) and GHC.Stg.Debug.quickSourcePos (-finfo-table-map) both contained logic to prioritise source note ticks from the current module. This commit commons up this logic and propagates it to a third consumer: IPE stack frames, in GHC.Driver.GenerateCgIPEStub. See the new function GHC.Types.Tickish.bestSourceNote. - - - - - 192be0b6 by Luite Stegeman at 2026-09-07T19:43:36-04:00 rts: fix ctoi_tuple_spill_words getting out of sync Fix a few places that were not updating ctoi_tuple_spill_words correctly, leading to corruption/crashes when dealing with large unboxed tuples in bytecode: - captureContinuationAndAbort - findRetryFrameHelper/findAtomicallyFrameHelper - interpretBCO bci_BRK_FUN fixes #27633 - - - - - 604eb43c by Simon Jakobi at 2026-09-07T19:44:15-04:00 Hadrian: don't capture the testsuite driver's output (#27780) a6061455d54 switched the Testsuite RunTest case from Shake's cmd to the cmd' wrapper. cmd' always captures stdout and stderr, and since the caller asks for Exit, it returns without dumping what it captured. As a result the testsuite output no longer appears in CI job logs: failures, performance metrics and the summary were lost with the job. Use cmdExe, the uncaptured cmd, as the other plain-cmd sites in that commit do. Fixes #27780. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 - - - - - 06eee015 by Luite Stegeman at 2026-09-08T06:03:06+02:00 rts: Fix missing memory barrier in eval_thunk_selector (#27477) unchain_thunk_selectors() was missing an ACQUIRE_LOAD for the indirectee, leading to segfaults and corruption during GC on weakly-ordered architectures. Fixes #27477 - - - - - f8b2bd8f by Alan Zimmerman at 2026-09-08T09:39:12-04:00 EPA Fix HsCmdDo exact print with comments Exact printing of HsCmdDo was ignoring the location for the do statements, and this is an annotation that can have comments in it. Update it so we print the statements as a unit, including any comments. Also add the result of auditing that we capture comments in all needed places, noting that the remaining Anno SrcSpan instances are benign. - - - - - 430967ab by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Reorder cmm decls in HeapStackCheck for a better logical grouping And put more section headers in to deliniate the groups. We're about to add more here, so better to organise it first. - - - - - 344080fd by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Add raisePrimIOException and add it to RTS<->ghc-internal API The raisePrimIOException is a new helper function that I/O primops will use to help them report I/O errors. This is implemented in Haskell (since that's a lot easier), but has a calling convention that is easy(ish) to use from Cmm in the I/O primops. So we add it to the RTS API struct, and since we'll use it from Cmm we also need a field accessor macro for cmm (in deriveConstants). See the Note about how we cannot have nice things due to async exceptions and thunks preventing us from using catch. - - - - - cfdb3399 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Add new blocking functions for I/O primops See the Note [Thread blocking for new I/O primops], and the Note [Calling convention for raisePrimIOException]. The point is, it will allow us to report synchronous exceptions from I/O primops, and do so much more flexibly. Previously the I/O managers could only report async exceptions and only nullary exceptions. This was OK historically, but no good as we add more I/O managers and expand the range of I/O operations we support. - - - - - f09c09d8 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Change the encoding of results from the I/O manager to I/O primops Previously we just had async continue or heap overflow. We now extend what we can report with synchronous success, and synchronous failure with an errno. See Note [Encoding of result of I/O manager operations] We don't use these two new cases yet, but we will. In particular an epoll I/O manager needs to be able to report synchronous success or failure for waitRead#/waitWrite#. - - - - - 30f074d9 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Switch waitRead/Write# to use new blocking return frames and update the I/O managers to set the result before resuming the blocked threads. This makes it possible for I/O managers to report synchronous exceptions from the I/O primops, but that will be done in a subsequent commit. - - - - - a8786ced by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Switch Poll and Select I/O managers to report sync exceptions rather than using raiseAsync with blockedOnBadFD_closure. This uses the new mechanism in the blocking frame return code to report synchronous exceptions. - - - - - 7a9df79a by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Remove now-unused blockedOnBadFD It was previously thrown by the select and poll I/O managers, but now they use raisePrimIOException (with an EBADF errno). - - - - - 6b0424e3 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Improve the docs for delay# waitRead# and waitWrite# Document that the waitRead/Write# can throw exceptions (this was true before too), and that all of them are async exception cancellation points. - - - - - afeb2c30 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T20:08:58-04:00 Enable printf warnings for trace functions and fix resulting warnings Most of the existing printf-style functions are annotated with attributes to enable gcc/clang warnings for the printf format string, but several trace functions in Trace.h were missing this annotation. Enable them, and fix the resulting warnings. - - - - - 9a442c93 by Alan Zimmerman at 2026-09-09T20:09:36-04:00 EPA: Exact print ConDeclGADT without custom enterAnn !16321 brought in explicit capture of parens in a ConDeclGADT. The ExactPrint update introduced a modification of the fundamental function in exact printing, `enterAnn`, by splitting it into a version allowing injection of functionality normally handled by the ExactPrint class methods. This commit refactors that code, to restore the prior `enterAnn` version, by following the convention in ExactPrint of introducing a helper data structure with its own `ExactPrint` instance to achieve the same effect. - - - - - 4e9297ea by Simon Jakobi at 2026-09-11T08:32:45-04:00 ci: Actually pass --ignore-perf-failures to the testsuite driver 684c0018d9 changed the IGNORE_PERF_FAILURES handling to append to RUNTEST_ARGS with bash array syntax, but the three use sites still expand RUNTEST_ARGS as a scalar, which yields only the first array element. The appended flag was therefore dropped in every job, so perf improvements kept failing Marge Bot batches and master pipelines, contrary to #19562. Append as a string instead, matching the existing --force-colors append in test_hadrian. Fixes #27563. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 - - - - - 4f78dfdf by Simon Jakobi at 2026-09-11T08:33:24-04:00 testsuite: Give T26537 a 1.5x compile timeout Its -fregs-graph compile step tends to time out in unoptimized builds (#27188, #27776). Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 - - - - - 130286e3 by Alan Zimmerman at 2026-09-11T08:34:08-04:00 EPA: Remove ListBanana / ListParens from AnnListBrackets This is a step towards making AnnList only represent lists of items which can have either braces or layout. - - - - - a9827d13 by Simon Jakobi at 2026-09-11T18:53:32-04:00 Reject ~, UNPACK and multiplicity annotations on type data fields Only `!` was rejected so far. `~`, UNPACK and multiplicity annotations were silently accepted. None of them make sense at the type level, so restriction (R3) of Note [Type data declarations] now covers all of them. Fixes #27732. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 - - - - - c71d5e23 by Alan Zimmerman at 2026-09-11T18:54:11-04:00 EPA: Add a Note for the exact print main loop - - - - - 7a108e43 by Simon Jakobi at 2026-09-12T18:35:59-04:00 FastString: Drop mkFastStringWith's constructor callback All three callers passed the same callback, a partial application of mkNewFastStringShortByteString to the string being interned. That partial application is allocated as a closure before the table lookup, on the common hit path too, although the callback is needed only after a miss. Drop the parameter and call mkNewFastStringShortByteString directly after a miss. Since nothing is passed "with" anymore, rename the function to internSB. Suggested by Simon PJ in #27528: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/work_items/27528#note_687031 Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5 - - - - - 82c73b22 by Alan Zimmerman at 2026-09-12T18:36:38-04:00 EPA: More targeted HsDo exact print annotation HsDo is multi-purpose, as encoded in its HsDoFlavour field. Some of these are in a layout context (DoExpr, MDoExpr), others are not (ListComp, MonadComp). We are moving towards using AnnList only in layout contexts, so we switch the HsDo TTG annotation from holding an AnnList for this, to holding Either (EpToken "[", EpToken "]") AnnList This also allows us to trim down AnnListBrackets to only have braces or None, thereby opening the door for unification with the existing layout context data type EpLayout. - - - - - 749d2448 by Luite Stegeman at 2026-09-15T14:07:01-04:00 rts: handle large CONSTR closures in compacting GC The function update_fwd_large in the compacting GC could run into an unexpected object with the following error: internal error: update_fwd_large: unknown/strange object 1 Closure type 1 is CONSTR. This patch adds cases for CONSTR and CONSTR_NOCAF. This is the same problem as #27434 (large AP closures, fixed by cca0d58963), which missed this case. Fixes #27649 - - - - - 177d6155 by Luite Stegeman at 2026-09-15T14:07:02-04:00 testsuite: fix T27434 test with compacting GC Ensure that the interpreter is actually run with the compacting GC - - - - - 5796aa63 by Luite Stegeman at 2026-09-15T14:07:49-04:00 rts: initialise the stack frame header for mask_frame and apply_mask_frame We must leave the stack in consistent state before jumping to mask_frame or apply_mask_frame because they may result. Failing to do so could lead to a crash if there were waiting exceptions. Fixes #27651 - - - - - 2486cc92 by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-09-15T14:08:36-04:00 Re-introduce the "weird SpecDict" case In this commit commit f80375dd4945350a1d784e436975b48b9c736eaf Author: Simon Peyton Jones <simon.peytonjones@gmail.com> Date: Sun Jun 29 15:26:58 2025 +0100 Refactor of Specialise.hs I removed a test for a dictionary with unbound type variables. This turned out to be wrong; see #27629. So this MR re-introduces it. - - - - - 8e09a46f by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-15T20:11:35-04:00 Refactor (and rename) removeFromQueues, to simplify I/O managers Rename it to unblockAndAppendToRunQueue which better reflects what it is intended to do. The post-condition for unblockAndAppendToRunQueue is that the TSO is on the run queue or it is in the process of migrating to another cap. Previously it achieved that by always directly adding the TSO to the run queue itself. But this actually made things more complicated for the I/O managers, because it meant they needed a separate code path for notifying for cancellation compared to notifying for completion. The general notification code would always add the TSO to the run queue itself. So the improvement is to allow different cases in unblockAndAppendToRunQueue to achieve the same outcome in different ways: either directly adding to the run queue or calling helper functions that do so themselves. This then allows the new I/O managers to share code between the sync and async cancellation, and to reuse their notifyIOCompletion helpers for cancellation. This avoids a source of bugs where the completion path may be updated but the cancellation path may be forgotten, or similarly in future for sync/async operations. Update all the existing in-RTS I/O managers, and the posix timeout code. - - - - - d668782c by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-15T20:11:35-04:00 Document that awaitCompletedTimeoutsOrIO expects an empty run queue This was true before but implicit and not relied on much. It's better to be explicit, and allow things to depend on it. - - - - - 11d938bb by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-15T20:11:35-04:00 Store the I/O opcode and fd in the StgAsyncIOOp This will be useful in several I/O managers and it is handy for logging and debugging. It also doesn't increase the size of the StgAsyncIOOp structure. There was enough spare padding space already. Update the poll I/O manager to set the new fields. Add a helper function to convert the enum IOReadOrWrite into the enum IOOpCode. Also change IOReadOrWrite to be an enum without a typedef, for consistency with other enumerations in IOManager.h - - - - - bfa87882 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-15T20:11:36-04:00 Add a new I/O manager based on select() Yes, this is the second such I/O manager, but it is a modern re-implementation based on the new in-RTS I/O manager infrastructure. So it is cleaner and faster than the old select I/O manager. Why do we need another I/O manager based on select? Why isn't the poll() one good enough as a baseline portable unix I/O manager? Because macOS. Apple Inc. is why we cannot have nice things. The man page for poll on macOS documents the fact that it does not work. At least, it does not work for all files. Specifically, it does not work for device files. Whereas macOS select() does work for device files. Aaaaarg! We _do_ want to deprecate and remove the old select I/O manager, but due to macOS we cannot do that until we have a replacement. This is that replacement. Until of course a nice new k-queue I/O manager arrives, which could become the new default for macOS and FreeBSD. Interestingly, this select I/O manager is actually faster than the poll one, on Linix, in some circumstances: specifically when many Haskell threads are waiting on the same fd. The poll I/O manager does O(n) work for n threads waiting on I/O, whereas the select one does O(fds) work for the number of fds that threads are waiting on. Usually this is 1:1, so it's not noticable, but one can concoct extreme benchmarks to show the difference. - - - - - 8e9de15a by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-15T20:11:36-04:00 Minor updates in the poll I/O manager to keep in sync with select This keeps it in sync with select one. The changes are based on code review while implementing the new select I/O manager. The two I/O managers are so similar in structure that it makes sense to try to minimise the diff between them. This should aid understanding, and fixes to both in future. - - - - - 222668bb by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-15T20:11:36-04:00 Document the new select I/O manager in the user guide in the RTS section about I/O managers. And add a changelog entry. - - - - - 0f48735b by Cheng Shao at 2026-09-15T20:12:23-04:00 Revert "wasm: workaround WebKit bug in dyld" This reverts commit c9b8465c2c338176fcab9d197e9d31f4aee11f68. The underlying webkit bug has been fixed in https://commits.webkit.org/314219@main. Closes #27564. - - - - - 809294f1 by Luite Stegeman at 2026-09-15T20:13:08-04:00 rts: make stg_threadLabelzh return a valid pointer for unlabeled threads. This fixes a segfault in the GC caused by stg_threadLabelzh returning a 0 pointer in a GC pointer field. stg_threadLabelzh returns a tuple of type (# Int#, ByteArray# #). If a thread has no label, the second field is unused. We must still return a valid heap object pointer. Instead of returning 0, we now return stg_DEAD_SLOT_closure. fixes #27618 - - - - - e2d57026 by Luite Stegeman at 2026-09-15T20:13:54-04:00 JS: fix selector thunk handling fix a bug where entering a selector thunk could lead to a crash if the selected field was still a thunk. fixes #27788 - - - - - 1b4a622f by sheaf at 2026-09-17T02:39:13-04:00 Improvements to type/data family handling This commit makes several improvements to the treatment of type and data families in GHC: - We consistently use "type family" instead of "type synonym family" to avoid a confusion with type synonyms. For example: - OpenSynFamilyTyCon ==> OpenTypeFamilyTyCon - ClosedSynFamilyTyCon => ClosedTypeFamilyTyCon - Various functions that were specific to data families have been renamed to make this clear. For example: - tyConFamInst_maybe ==> tyConDataFamInst_maybe - isFamInstTyCon ==> isDataFamInstTyCon - 'FamTyConFlav' has been refactored so that all closed type families share a single 'ClosedTypeFamilyTyCon' constructor. The corresponding 'IfaceFamTyConFlav' type was updated similarly. This is then used to tidy up the implementation of GHC.Core.FamInstEnv.reduceTyFamApp_maybe. - - - - - c5aa9098 by sheaf at 2026-09-17T02:39:13-04:00 Small refactor of lookupFamInstEnv This commit reworks the code for looking up family instances in GHC.Core.FamInstEnv, reducing duplication a little bit. No change in behaviour. - - - - - a3ad4588 by sheaf at 2026-09-17T02:39:14-04:00 Use a type family for boxing unboxed types This commit overhauls the way in which unboxed types are boxed, as per the updated Note [Boxing constructors] in GHC.Builtin.WiredIn.Types.Box. The main change is to allow boxing to be parametrised by representation, e.g. making 'Box ty' a valid type. We achieve this by implementing 'Box' using a closed type family: newtype Box (a :: TYPE r) = Box (BoxTF r) type BoxTF :: RuntimeRep -> Type type family BoxTF r where BoxTF IntRep = BoxInt BoxTF Int8Rep = BoxInt8 BoxTF WordRep = BoxWord BoxTF LiftedRep = Any @Type BoxTF (TupleRep [r1, r2]) = (BoxTF r1, BoxTF r2) ... BoxTF (SumRep rs) = BoxSum rs This new design solves the following problems: - It allows boxing a type whose 'RuntimeRep' has not yet been determined (e.g. because we only learn the 'RuntimeRep' after constraint solving). That is, 'Box @r a' is a perfectly valid type even if 'r' is an unfilled metavariable. This is a requirement to fix #25065 (in which we need to box a type whose 'RuntimeRep' is only filled in during constraint solving). - It handles boxing of unboxed tuples and unboxed sums, via recursive boxing. See Note [Boxing TupleRep and SumRep] in GHC.Builtin.WiredIn.Types.Box. 'Box', 'BoxTF' and all of the boxing data constructors are defined in a new 'ghc-internal' module, 'GHC.Internal.Box'. This module contains nothing but wired-in declarations, and GHC never loads its interface on account of a wired-in thing (GHC.Builtin.Modules.isWiredInOnlyModule); see Note [Loading instances for wired-in things] in GHC.Iface.Load. The individual boxing data constructors are deliberately left as an internal implementation detail, and not exported. The intended API is via the two new magic 'Id's: box :: forall {r} (a :: TYPE r). a -> Box a unbox :: forall {r} (a :: TYPE r). Box a -> a exported from 'GHC.PrimOps' (in 'ghc-experimental'). The old boxing data types (IntBox, WordBox, FloatBox, DoubleBox, DictBox) are no longer exported from base (CLC proposal #421). We use this new design to consistently desugar: - parallel comprehensions (GHC.HsToCore.ListComp.{deListComp,dsMcStmt}) - then/group/using statements (GHC.HsToCore.ListComp.{dsTransStmt,dsMcStmt}) - recursive do blocks (mdo/rec) (GHC.HsToCore.Expr.dsDo) - arrows (GHC.HsToCore.Arrows) by consistently using 'box'/'unbox' to deal with unboxed types being put into big tuples. We also adapt 'GHC.Tc.Gen.Match.{tcMcStmt,tcDoStmt}' to create fresh /representation-polymorphic/ type variables for the binders that we are going to put into a big tuple (previously, GHC only allowed lifted types in that position). These desugaring of box and unbox is explained in Note [Desugaring box & unbox] in GHC.Core.Make.Box. Roughly speaking, the desugaring looks like: box @r @ty e ==> K e unbox @r @ty e ==> case e of K x -> x where 'K' is the boxing data constructor at RuntimeRep 'r'. It's slightly more complicated than that in practice: we first need to insert a cast (see Note [The canonical type of a RuntimeRep]) using the new 'CanonicalProv' 'UnivCoProvenance', and unboxed tuples/sums need recursive logic explained in Note [box/unbox for unboxed tuples and sums], including a specific 'BoxSum' datatypes for unboxed sum (which also needed a wired-in type-level list indexing type family (!!)). The desugaring happens in two ways: - Occurrences of 'box'/'unbox' emitted by the typechecker are eliminated in the 'ds_app_var' case of GHC.HsToCore.Expr. - Other code that needs to box/unbox emits the appropriate code inline. This includes the big tuple machinery of GHC.Core.Make used by the desugarer (GHC.HsToCore.{Utils,Binds,Arrows,ListComp}) as well as the float-out pass (GHC.Core.Opt.SetLevels). Core Lint checks that no occurrence of 'box'/'unbox' survives desugaring. On the way, we overhaul the litany of big tuple functions by introducing data BigTupleLayout = BoxedElements | BareElements to distinguish the two kinds of "big tuples" that GHC routinely deals with; for example 'mkBigCoreVarTupSolo' becomes 'mkBigCoreVarTup BareElements'. All of this code is moved to the new module GHC.Core.Make.BigTuple. Fixes #20864 #22336 #22473 #25065 #27331 ------------------------- Metric Decrease: T9872a ------------------------- - - - - - 4cf7628a by Evgeny Malyshev at 2026-09-17T02:39:56-04:00 Fix the CompactionFailed documentation link to compact The old Haddock reference links into base instead of ghc-compact. Use an explicit URL because ghc-compact depends on base, not vice versa. Fixes #27558 Assisted-By: OpenAI Codex - - - - - 098bba70 by Facundo Domínguez at 2026-09-17T14:57:41-04:00 Remove the call to hoistFlag from processCmdLineP This call was undesirable because it was causing a reconstruction of the list of flag processors. Even relying on list fusion would not be sufficient because we want to replace the list with a data structure with faster lookups to address #25763. The removal is done in two moves: * We move CmdLineP to CmdLine.hs * Then we move the effect of hoisting to processArgs via a new function hoistEwM - - - - - e01799c7 by Facundo Domínguez at 2026-09-17T14:57:42-04:00 Do not create duplicate flag processors for the -W flag This makes simpler implementing the command line parser with a trie map holding flag processors. If we were to allow duplicate flag processors for any flag, the trie map would need to be a multimap. - - - - - 3875b257 by Facundo Domínguez at 2026-09-17T14:57:42-04:00 Replace the list of flag processors with a trie map in `processArgs` Previously `GHC.Driver.CmdLine.findArg` was called for each command-line argument, doing a linear search on the list of flag processors each time. This was somewhat costly as the list of flag processor has near 2000 elements. A lookup with a trie map is faster in general, but the speed up is only noticeable when calling `GHC.Driver.CmdLine.processArgs` sufficient times, so the amount of lookups piles up. This could happen in large projects with many units each having many dependencies. If only a module needs to be recompiled, the user still needs to wait for all of the flag parsing to complete. The benchmark at testsuite/tests/perf/compiler/cmdline-parser shows a 10x speed up when using the trie. The trie map is implemented in `GHC.Data.StringTrie`. The design is explained in Note [Processing command line argument fast] in GHC.Driver.Session. The commit also: * adds two property-based tests for trie map operations, * adds a benchmark of the command line parser, and * renames the predicate `arg_ok` to `valid_flag_suffix` to decide what flag processor should be used when there are multiple matching prefixes on a flag. Fixes #25763. - - - - - 5236634a by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-09-17T14:58:24-04:00 Compile Word64{Map,Set} with -O2 always. This is the hottest code and even if we build GHC with -O0 otherwise -O2 pays off for these modules. Fixes #27814. - - - - - af769be8 by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-09-21T18:00:35+03:00 Improve the `mhu-closure` makefile - - - - - 6a370259 by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-09-21T18:00:35+03:00 Re-implement the home unit closure check Compared to the previous implementation, the new one has the following advantages: * It is correct. - It distinguishes between units that have the same unit ID but different ABI hashes. - When `-hide-all-packages` is not used, it considers as home unit dependencies also units that are made implicitly available because they are in the package database. * It seems to be faster in usual settings. - In particular, it does not have a preparation phase in which it merges the dependency information from all home units, so that its running time does not grow linearly with the size of the package database in normal Cabal scenarios. * It is (hopefully) clearer. * It is better documented. - - - - - db612ab3 by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-09-21T18:00:36+03:00 Improve the definition of the home unit closure property - 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