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[GHC] #8146: Library package cannot be found
by GHC 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

#8146: Library package cannot be found --------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: conradwt | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: Installing GHC failed Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: Difficulty: Unknown | Blocking: Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | --------------------------------+------------------------------------------ {{{ ./sync-all get warning: libffi-tarballs already present; omitting == libffi-tarballs: running git config --local core.ignorecase true warning: utils/hsc2hs already present; omitting == utils/hsc2hs: running git config --local core.ignorecase true warning: utils/haddock already present; omitting == utils/haddock: running git config --local core.ignorecase true == running git clone https://github.com/ghc/packages/array.git libraries/array Cloning into 'libraries/array'... fatal: repository 'https://github.com/ghc/packages/array.git/' not found git failed: 32768 at ./sync-all line 119. == Checking for old haddock repo == Checking for old binary repo == Checking for old mtl repo == Checking for old Cabal repo == Checking for old time from tar ball }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8146> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8197: telling people how to use GHC 7.6 correctly with Xcode 5/ OS X Mavericks
by GHC 24 May '14

24 May '14

#8197: telling people how to use GHC 7.6 correctly with Xcode 5/ OS X Mavericks ----------------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: carter | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: MacOS X Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ----------------------------------+--------------------------------- Are we going to make available directions so that people can use 7.6 correctly with xcode 5 and/or mavericks? eg: will we provide directions to either 1. use Luke Ianni's clang wrapper hack, and bundle that with a 7.6 release thats 7.6.3 + that extra binary to make a 10.8 friendly "stability" release 2. tell people to stick to xcode 4.6 and/or install a newer GCC (say, GCC 4.8) and adjust their ghc settings file to point to that other GCC? We need to provide this information in a clear way, because this WILL be a problem where we'll have a support load from it (whether we want to or not, until GHC 7.8 gets a haskell platform release, this WILL happen. We need to have a mitigation strategy so that we aren't dealing with it constantly) -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8197> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8121: Gitolite Migration
by GHC 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

#8121: Gitolite Migration ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: hvr | Owner: hvr Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: None | Version: Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This ticket is for keeping track of the implementation of the [GitolitePlan Gitolite Migration Plan] See also the posting [http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.ghc.devel/1618 "Proposal: Gitolite for repository management"] to ghc-devs(a)haskell.org -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8121> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8141: Liberalising IncoherentInstances
by GHC 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

#8141: Liberalising IncoherentInstances ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: nomeata | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- As [http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell- users/2013-July/022651.html|SPJ argued], -XIncoherentInstances could be even more liberal. This ticket is to give the proposal a number; I am currently preparing a patch for this. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8141> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8153: Implement AES intrinsics
by GHC 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

#8153: Implement AES intrinsics ----------------------------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: schyler | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Moderate (less than a day) | Type of failure: Blocked By: | None/Unknown Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: ----------------------------------------------+---------------------------- LLVM has the following intrinsics for working with AES encryption; @llvm.x86.aesni_{aesimc,aesenc,aesenclast,aesdec,aesdeclast,aeskeygenassist} It would be nice if at some stage these are supported through primops/intrinsics, as it would mean the crypto libraries can be rewritten to not use C and we'd get some nicer inlining on these. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8153> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8157: Add a broader set of (C/CMM-based) atomic memory operations
by GHC 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

#8157: Add a broader set of (C/CMM-based) atomic memory operations ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: rrnewton | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This task is a precursor to ticket #7883. The goal is to standardize a broader set of atomic ops -- mainly CAS and fetch-and-add -- and then in #7883 we will optimize those primops to have native support in the LLVM backend and thus avoid the extra C calls. Currently, the goal is only to support word-sized (4 or 8 byte) compare-and-swap and fetch-and-add operations. In the future, this goal could be expanded to support 16-byte CAS, implemented by CMPXCHG16B on x86. Even supporting word sized CAS requires three different primops for operating on `MutVar`, `MutableArray`, and `MutableByteArray`, respectively. Here are signatures for those primOps: {{{ #!C gcptr stg_casMutVarzh ( gcptr mv, gcptr old, gcptr new ) /* MutVar# s a -> a -> a -> State# s -> (# State#, Int#, Any a #) */ gcptr stg_casArrayzh ( gcptr arr, W_ ind, gcptr old, gcptr new ); /* MutableArray# s a -> Int# -> a -> a -> State# s -> (# State# s, Int#, Any a #) */ W_ stg_casIntArrayzh( gcptr arr, W_ ind, W_ old, W_ new ); /* MutableByteArray# s -> Int# -> Int# -> Int# -> State# s -> (# State# s, Int# #) */ }}} Fetch-and-add, on the other hand, only makes sense on a `MutableByteArray`: {{{ #!C W_ stg_fetchAddIntArrayzh( gcptr arr, W_ ind, W_ incr ); /* MutableByteArray# s -> Int# -> Int# -> State# s -> (# State# s, Int# #) */ }}} Some systems, such as gcc and LLVM, provide other variants, such as "fetch-and-multiply". However, these do not have direct support on x86 and are usually just simulated with CAS. For example, see the [http://llvm.org/docs/Atomics.html#atomics-and-codegen LLVM documentation here]. User-exposed Haskell libraries for atomic operations may employ the same approach using the CAS primOps above to simulate other fetch-and-X operations. Finally, a design question which bears thinking about is how to implement opaque "ticket" approach to CAS. The basic idea is that a user does NOT present a regular pointer-based data value (e.g. `Int`) to CAS as the "old" value. Rather, observations of prior values are kept in an opaque form (`Any` type) to prevent the compiler changing the pointer identity by, for example, unboxing and reboxing the value. The way this affects the **primOp** design is as follows. The current implementation of casMutVar# and casArray# returns the NEW value rather than the old one if the CAS is successful. The Haskell code that imports the primOps treats this new value as the opaque ticket. The user can in fact safely retrieve the real value from the `Any`-based "ticket" with a `peekTicket :: Ticket a -> a` operation. But [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/atomic-primops/0.4/doc/html /Data-Atomics.html#g:1 peekTicket] MUST [https://github.com/rrnewton /haskell-lockfree- queue/blob/880fb11de354d84f6c9a8ee06d5d4a887bd449a4/AtomicPrimops/Data/Atomics.hs#L114 be marked NOINLINE] to hide the `unsafeCoerce` operation inside it from compiler optimizations. Otherwise, the code path that carries the ticket from one CAS operation to the next is subject to optimization [1]. In particular, `unsafeCoerce` simply becomes a type-level operation, not a function call with the usual constraints on control and dataflow. Returning to the issue of primOp design, if we wished to avoid the somewhat non-standard design of returning the new value from CAS, we //could// allow users to create `Ticket` values themselves, rather retrieving them as the result of previous read and CAS IO operations. Yet this would entail an additional `NOINLINE` (unsafeCoerce) function call, and I believe it would be prone to error. Further, if you look at [https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/25ad01533aaaf1ccf69e1b7216e66de025b8131b/rt… the primOp implementation for stg_casMutVarzh], you will see that there is //already// a branch, which is necessary for updating GC-related meta-data. Thus there is no additional overhead to return the new rather than the old value from CAS operations in the successful case. Haskell-level CAS is already a compound operation, not merely a single machine code instruction. By contrast, the C intrinsic `__sync_val_compare_and_swap` can become only a single machine operation, and it returns the "old" value irrespective of whether the CAS succeeded or failed. In fact, an equality comparison on that old value is necessary to determine if the operation succeeded. In contrast, the Haskell CAS primOps above return an unboxed tuple with an explicit success bit. Thus returning the old value in the success case is completely redundant, and returning the new value instead allows us to acheive two goals (the CAS and the opacifying coercion) with one operation at no additional cost. [1] P.S. As a concrete example of what happens when `unsafeCoerce` is not hidden, consider the following code as a starting point: {{{ x = unsafeCoerce y z = f y }}} `x` would seem to have nothing to do with `f`, and yet later in the compiler, one can end up with Core like this: {{{ z = f x }}} This exposes the type information and activates optimizations, which was the source of [https://github.com/rrnewton/haskell-lockfree- queue/issues/5 one bug] with the `lockfree-queue` package that was fixed by adding NOINLINE to `peekTicket`. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8157> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8164: GHC HEAD panics in testsuite on OS X 10.8 with cc=Clang (using newest xcode 5 dev tools)
by GHC 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

#8164: GHC HEAD panics in testsuite on OS X 10.8 with cc=Clang (using newest xcode 5 dev tools) ----------------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: carter | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.7 Keywords: | Operating System: MacOS X Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ----------------------------------+--------------------------------- I got the following panics when I ran the GHC test suite per ticket #8148 (using xcode 5 CLI dev preview tools released as of august 21st on OS X 10.8) =====> ghcilink003(normal) 889 of 3736 [8, 195, 0] cd ./ghci/linking && $MAKE -s --no-print-directory ghcilink003 </dev/null >ghcilink003.run.stdout 2>ghcilink003.run.stderr Wrong exit code (expected 0 , actual 2 ) Stdout: Stderr: ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.7.20130822 for x86_64-apple-darwin): Loading archives not supported Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug =====> EnumFromToP(normal) 564 of 3736 [0, 82, 0] cd ./dph/enumfromto && '/Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' -fforce- recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-ghci-history -c EnumFromToP.hs -O -fno-enable-rewrite-rules -package dph-lifted-vseg >EnumFromToP.comp.stderr 2>&1 Actual stderr output differs from expected: --- /dev/null 2013-08-22 16:09:56.000000000 -0400 +++ ./dph/enumfromto/EnumFromToP.comp.stderr 2013-08-22 16:11:18.000000000 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) + (GHC version 7.7.20130822 for x86_64-apple-darwin): + DsMonad: uninitialised ds_parr_bi + +Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug =====> jmp_tbl(optasm) 102 of 3736 [0, 33, 0] cd ./codeGen/should_compile && '/Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' -fforce- recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-ghci-history -c jmp_tbl.hs -O -fasm -fPIC -O >jmp_tbl.comp.stderr 2>&1 Compile failed (status 256) errors were: ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.7.20130822 for x86_64-apple-darwin): allocateRegsAndSpill: Cannot read from uninitialized register %vI_c0 Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug =====> T7574(hpc) 102 of 3736 [0, 33, 0] cd ./codeGen/should_compile && '/Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' -fforce- recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-ghci-history -c T7574.cmm -O -fhpc -hpcdir .hpc.T7574 -no- hs-main >T7574.comp.stderr 2>&1 Compile failed (status 256) errors were: ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.7.20130822 for x86_64-apple-darwin): allocateRegsAndSpill: Cannot read from uninitialized register %vI_c0 Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug =====> T7574(optasm) 102 of 3736 [0, 33, 0] cd ./codeGen/should_compile && '/Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' -fforce- recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-ghci-history -c T7574.cmm -O -fasm -no-hs-main >T7574.comp.stderr 2>&1 Compile failed (status 256) errors were: ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.7.20130822 for x86_64-apple-darwin): allocateRegsAndSpill: Cannot read from uninitialized register %vI_c0 Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug =====> T7574(normal) 102 of 3736 [0, 2, 0] cd ./codeGen/should_compile && '/Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' -fforce- recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-ghci-history -c T7574.cmm -no-hs-main >T7574.comp.stderr 2>&1 Compile failed (status 256) errors were: ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.7.20130822 for x86_64-apple-darwin): allocateRegsAndSpill: Cannot read from uninitialized register %vI_c0 Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug }} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8164> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8124: Possible leaks when using foreign export.
by GHC 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

#8124: Possible leaks when using foreign export. ------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: augustss | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime | Version: 7.6.3 System | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Keywords: | Type of failure: Runtime performance bug Architecture: | Test Case: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking: Difficulty: Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | ------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- When a Haskell function exported with foreign export is called from outside Haskell a new Task may be allocated for it. There will be one Task allocated for each OS thread calling into Haskell (this happens in rts_lock()). This Task is, by design, never deallocated. This works fine with a small number of threads, but if the external caller generates a lot of threads that die the Haskell RTS will just get more and more Task objects that are never freed. The Task also contains a condition variable and a mutex, which incurs a HANDLE leak on Windows. I don't see an elegant fix to this, but the attached code remembers the OS thread for "incall" Task, and every so often (every 100 Tasks created) if will scan the Tasks looking for ones where the OS thread is dead, and remove these. The fix only works on Windows, I'm afraid. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8124> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8180: ghc --make uses wrong way with Template Haskell
by GHC 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

#8180: ghc --make uses wrong way with Template Haskell ----------------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: goldfire | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.7 Keywords: | Operating System: MacOS X Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ----------------------------------+--------------------------------- I have the following files: {{{ {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} module THSplice where number3 = [| 3 |] }}} {{{ {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} module Main where import THSplice main = putStrLn (show $number3) }}} When I say `ghc Main.hs`, I get this: {{{ [1 of 2] Compiling THSplice ( THSplice.hs, THSplice.o ) [2 of 2] Compiling Main ( Main.hs, Main.o ) Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Main.hs:7:23: cannot find normal object file ‛./THSplice.dyn_o’ while linking an interpreted expression }}} It's possible a different collection of flags could get this to work, but I think this behavior goes against the intended "it just works" flavor of `--make`. This is a regression bug -- ghc 7.6.3 does the right thing. I'm on MacOS 10.7.5, Xcode 4.3.3. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8180> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8065: Set trac up for multiple git repos
by GHC 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

#8065: Set trac up for multiple git repos ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: igloo | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: None | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Set trac up for multiple git repos: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/GitPlugin#Multi-RepositoryConfiguration -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8065> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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