| conservative regarding windows. I probably could help, but this would | require a lot of learning of Cmm-related things (I've made reverting | patch completely mechanically), so I'd want to know that nobody else | would work on this. Just trying to reproduce the crash, and then git-bisecting to the fault, would be a huge step forward. I don't think you'd need to know Cmm necessarily Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Kyra | Sent: 12 March 2014 15:36 | To: ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release | | On 12.03.2014 19:04, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: | > Alas we are currently stalled on #8870, #8834: we are getting | > seg-faults on Windows. (For example, on my laptop, the stage2 compiler | > seg-faults when compiling some (but not all) files. Although few | > people develop GHC on Windows, many people **use** GHC on Windows, so | > we can't really release in this state. | > | > We need help! Austin is trying, but it's all working on his Windows | > build. He's trying to get more machines to see if he can reproduce the | > failure there. | > | > Does anyone feel able to help? Even git-bisecting to find the | > offending commit would be a huge help. | > | As I've already wrote in comments to #8834 I can't reproduce #8870 using | 32-bit GHC on 64-bit Windows OS. Both of my machines have only 64-bit | Windows installed. So no help here, sorry. | > | > On #8834 Simon M speculates that we may have the callee-saves register | > wrong on Win64. Does anyone feel up to looking into that? | > | After reading Simon M comment I've looked into win64 documentation and | `includes/stg/MachRegs.h` file. Perhaps, I've missed something, but I've | seen nothing wrong there, `includes/stg/MachRegs.h` is even a bit too | conservative regarding windows. I probably could help, but this would | require a lot of learning of Cmm-related things (I've made reverting | patch completely mechanically), so I'd want to know that nobody else | would work on this. | | Sorry for strange empty messages from me. Something wrong happened with | my Thunderbird. | | Regards, | Kyra | _______________________________________________ | ghc-devs mailing list | ghc-devs@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs