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7fbb4fcb
by Rodrigo Mesquita at 2026-04-01T12:16:33+00:00
Bump default language edition to GHC2024
As per the accepted ghc-proposal#632
Fixes #26039
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5ae43275
by Peng Fan at 2026-04-01T19:01:06-04:00
NCG/LA64: add cmpxchg and xchg primops
And append some new instructions for LA664 uarch.
Apply fix to cmpxchg-prim by Andreas Klebinger.
Suggestions in https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/15515
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8f95534a
by Duncan Coutts at 2026-04-01T19:01:52-04:00
Remove signal-based ticker implementations
Fixes issue #27073
All supported platforms should work with the pthreads + nanosleep based
ticker implementation. This avoids all the problems with using signals.
In practice, all supported platforms were probably using the non-signal
tickers already, which is probably why we do not get lots of reports
about deadlocks and other weirdness: we were definately using functions
that are not async signal safe in the tick handler (such as fflush to
flussh the eventlog).
Only Solaris was explicitly using the timer_create ticker impl, and even
Solaris could probably use the pthreads one (if anyone cared: Solaris is
no longer a Teir 3 supported platform).
Plausibly the only supported platform that this will change will be AIX,
which should now use the pthreads impl.
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51b32b0d
by Duncan Coutts at 2026-04-01T19:01:52-04:00
Tidy up some timer/ticker comments elsewhere
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7562bcd7
by Duncan Coutts at 2026-04-01T19:01:52-04:00
Remove now-unused install_vtalrm_handler
Support function used by both of the signal-based ticker
implementations.
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6da127c7
by Duncan Coutts at 2026-04-01T19:01:52-04:00
No longer probe for timer_create in rts/configure
It was only used by the TimerCreate.c ticker impl.
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3fd490fa
by Duncan Coutts at 2026-04-01T19:01:53-04:00
Note that rtsTimerSignal is deprecated.
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63099b0f
by Simon Jakobi at 2026-04-01T19:02:39-04:00
Add perf test for #13960
Closes #13960.
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58009c14
by Apoorv Ingle at 2026-04-02T09:51:24+01:00
Streamline expansions using HsExpansion (#25001)
Notes added [Error Context Stack] [Typechecking by expansion: overview]
Notes updated Note [Expanding HsDo with XXExprGhcRn] [tcApp: typechecking applications]
-------------------------
Metric Decrease:
T9020
-------------------------
There are 2 key changes:
1. `HsExpand` datatype mediates between expansions
2. Replace `ErrCtxtM` to a simpler `HsCtxt` that does not depend on a `TidyEnv`
This has some consequences detailed below:
1. `HsExpand` datatype mediates between expansions
* Simplifies the implementations of `tcExpr` to work on `XExpr`
* Removes `VACtxt` (and its associated `VAExpansion` and `VACall`) datatype, it is subsumed by simply a `SrcSpan`.
* Removes the function `addHeadCtxt` as it is now mearly setting a location
* The function `tcValArgs` does its own argument number management
* move `splitHsTypes` out of `tcApp`
* Removes special case of tcBody from `tcLambdaMatches`
* Removes special case of `dsExpr` for `ExpandedThingTc`
* Renames `tcMonoExpr` -> `tcMonoLExpr`, `tcMonoExprNC` -> `tcMonoLExpr`
* Renames `EValArg`, `EValArgQL` fields: `ea_ctxt` -> `ea_loc_span` and `eaql_ctx` -> `eaql_loc_span`
* Remove `PopErrCtxt` from `XXExprGhcRn`
* `fun_orig` in tcInstFun depends on the SrcSpan of the head of the application chain (similar to addArgCtxt)
- it references the application chain head if it is user located, or
uses the error context stack as a fallback if it's a generated
location
* Make a new variant `GeneratedSrcSpan` in `SrcSpan` for HIEAst Nodes
- Expressions wrapped around `GeneratedSrcSpan` are ignored and never added to the error context stack
- In Explicit list expansion `fromListN` is wrapped with a `GeneratedSrcSpan` with `GeneratedSrcSpanDetails` field to store the original srcspan
2. Replace `ErrCtxtM` to a simpler `HsCtxt` that does not depend on a `TidyEnv`
* Merge `HsThingRn` to `HsCtxt`
* Landmark Error messages are now just computed on the fly
* Make HsExpandedRn and HsExpandedTc payload a located HsExpr GhcRn
* `HsCtxt` are tidied and zonked at the end right before printing
Co-authored-by: simonpj <simon.peytonjones@gmail.com>
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bc4b4487
by Zubin Duggal at 2026-04-03T14:22:27-04:00
driver: recognise .dyn_o as a valid object file to link if passed on the command line.
This allows plugins compiled with this suffix to run.
Fixes #24486
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5ebb9121
by Simon Jakobi at 2026-04-03T14:23:11-04:00
Add regression test for #16145
Closes #16145.
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c1fc1c44
by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-04-03T19:56:07-04:00
Refactor eta-expansion in Prep
The Prep pass does eta-expansion but I found cases where it was
doing bad things. So I refactored and simplified it quite a bit.
In the new design
* There is no distinction between `rhs` and `body`; in particular,
lambdas can now appear anywhere, rather than just as the RHS of
a let-binding.
* This change led to a significant simplification of Prep, and
a more straightforward explanation of eta-expansion. See the new
Note [Eta expansion]
* The consequences is that CoreToStg needs to handle naked lambdas.
This is very easy; but it does need a unique supply, which forces
some simple refactoring. Having a unique supply to hand is probably
a good thing anyway.
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21beda2c
by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-04-03T19:56:07-04:00
Clarify Note [Interesting dictionary arguments]
Ticket #26831 ended up concluding that the code for
GHC.Core.Opt.Specialise.interestingDict was good, but the
commments were a bit inadequate.
This commit improves the comments slightly.
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3eaac1f2
by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-04-03T19:56:07-04:00
Make inlining a bit more eager for overloaded functions
If we have
f d = ... (class-op d x y) ...
we should be eager to inline `f`, because that may change the
higher order call (class-op d x y) into a call to a statically
known function.
See the discussion on #26831.
Even though this does a bit /more/ inlining, compile times
decrease by an average of 0.4%.
Compile time changes:
DsIncompleteRecSel3(normal) 431,786,104 -2.2%
ManyAlternatives(normal) 670,883,768 -1.6%
ManyConstructors(normal) 3,758,493,832 -2.6% GOOD
MultilineStringsPerf(normal) 29,900,576 -2.8%
T14052Type(ghci) 1,047,600,848 -1.2%
T17836(normal) 392,852,328 -5.2%
T18478(normal) 442,785,768 -1.4%
T21839c(normal) 341,536,992 -14.1% GOOD
T3064(normal) 174,086,152 +5.3% BAD
T5631(normal) 506,867,800 +1.0%
hard_hole_fits(normal) 209,530,736 -1.3%
info_table_map_perf(normal) 19,523,093,184 -1.2%
parsing001(normal) 377,810,528 -1.1%
pmcOrPats(normal) 60,075,264 -0.5%
geo. mean -0.4%
minimum -14.1%
maximum +5.3%
Runtime changes
haddock.Cabal(normal) 27,351,988,792 -0.7%
haddock.base(normal) 26,997,212,560 -0.6%
haddock.compiler(normal) 219,531,332,960 -1.0%
Metric Decrease:
LinkableUsage01
ManyConstructors
T17949
T21839c
T13035
TcPlugin_RewritePerf
hard_hole_fits
Metric Increase:
T3064
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5cbc2c82
by Matthew Pickering at 2026-04-03T19:57:02-04:00
bytecode: Add magic header/version to bytecode files
In order to avoid confusing errors when using stale interface files (ie
from an older compiler version), we add a simple header/version check
like the one for interface files.
Fixes #27068
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d95a1936
by fendor at 2026-04-03T19:57:02-04:00
Add constants for bytecode in-memory buffer size
Introduce a common constant for the default size of the .gbc and
.bytecodelib binary buffer.
The buffer is by default set to 1 MB.
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b822c30a
by mangoiv at 2026-04-03T19:57:49-04:00
testsuite: filter stderr for static001 on darwin
This reactivates the test on x86_64 darwin as this should have been done
long ago and ignores warnings emitted by ranlib on newer version of the
darwin toolchain since they are benign. (no symbols for stub libraries)
Fixes #27116
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28ce1f8a
by Andreas Klebinger at 2026-04-03T19:58:44-04:00
Give the Data instance for ModuleName a non-bottom toConstr implementation.
I've also taken the liberty to add Note [Data.Data instances for GHC AST Types]
describing some of the uses of Data.Data I could find.
Fixes #27129
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8ca41ffe
by mangoiv at 2026-04-03T19:59:30-04:00
issue template: fix add bug label
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3981db0c
by Sylvain Henry at 2026-04-03T20:00:33-04:00
Add more canned GC functions for common register patterns (#27142)
Based on analysis of heap-check sites across the GHC compiler and Cabal,
the following patterns were not covered by existing canned GC functions
but occurred frequently enough to warrant specialisation:
stg_gc_ppppp -- 5 GC pointers
stg_gc_ip -- unboxed word + GC pointer
stg_gc_pi -- GC pointer + unboxed word
stg_gc_ii -- two unboxed words
stg_gc_bpp -- byte (I8) + two GC pointers
Adding these reduces the fraction of heap-check sites falling back to
the generic GC path from ~1.4% to ~0.4% when compiling GHC itself.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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d17d1435
by Matthew Pickering at 2026-04-03T20:01:19-04:00
Make home unit dependencies stored as sets
Co-authored-by: Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@well-typed.com>
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2c24ee02
by sheaf at 2026-04-04T22:26:13+02:00
Simplify mkTick
This commit simplifies 'GHC.Core.Utils.mkTick', removing the
accumulating parameter 'rest' which was suspiciously treating a bunch of
different ticks as a group, and moving the group as a whole around the
AST, ignoring that the ticks in the group might have different placement
properties.
Also adds Note [Pushing SCCs inwards] which clarifies the logic for
pushing SCCs into lambdas, constructor applications, and dropping SCCs
around non-function variables (in particular the treatment of splittable
ticks).
A few other changes are also implemented:
- simplify 'can_split' predicate (no functional change)
- drop profiling ticks around coercions, fixing #26941 and #27121
- combine profiling ticks into one when possible
Fixes #26878, #26941 and #27121
Co-authored-by: simonpj <simon.peytonjones@gmail.com>