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[GHC] #8796: -ddump-splices prints to error stream
by GHC 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

#8796: -ddump-splices prints to error stream -------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: jstolarek | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.9 Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Easy (less than 1 hour) | Type of failure: Blocked By: | None/Unknown Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: -------------------------------------------+------------------------------- I just noticed that unlike other dump flags, `-ddump-splices` dumps to the error stream. I don't think this difference in behaviour is intended. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8796> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9004: Add sortOn function to Data.List
by GHC 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

#9004: Add sortOn function to Data.List -------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: JohnWiegley | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: libraries/base | Version: 7.8.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Easy (less than 1 hour) | Type of failure: Blocked By: | None/Unknown Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: -------------------------------------------+------------------------------- The following passed for two weeks on the libraries mailing list without any dissenting votes. The request is to add the following function to Data.List: {{{ -- | Sort a list by comparing the results of a key function applied to each -- element. @sortOn f@ is equivalent to @sortBy . comparing f@, but has the -- performance advantage of only evaluating @f@ once for each element in the -- input list. This is called the decorate-sort-undecorate paradigm, or -- Schwartzian transform. sortOn :: Ord b => (a -> b) -> [a] -> [a] sortOn f = map snd . sortBy (comparing fst) . map (\x -> let y = f x in y `seq` (y, x)) }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9004> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9767: Add isSubsequenceOf to Data.List
by GHC 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

#9767: Add isSubsequenceOf to Data.List -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bernalex | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: libraries/base | Version: 7.8.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Easy (less than 1 | Type of failure: hour) | None/Unknown Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Niklas Hambüchen suggested that we add the dual of subsequences, isSubsequenceOf (like isPrefixOf to inits & isSuffixOf to tails)[1]. It was a simple and noncontroversial proposal which received unanimous +1s. [1] https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2014-November/024063.html -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9767> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8266: Dynamic linking on Mac
by GHC 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

#8266: Dynamic linking on Mac ------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: kazu- | Owner: yamamoto | Status: new Type: bug | Milestone: Priority: highest | Version: 7.7 Component: Build | Operating System: MacOS X System | Type of failure: GHC doesn't work at all Keywords: | Test Case: Architecture: | Blocking: Unknown/Multiple | Difficulty: Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | ------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Many dynamic libraries refer to the build tree. (1) Every ".dylib" installed with GHC head refers to itself in its build directory. E.g. {{{ % otool -L libHSbase-4.7.0.0-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib | grep base libHSbase-4.7.0.0-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib: /Users/kazu/work/ghc/libraries/base/dist- install/build/libHSbase-4.7.0.0-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) }}} (2) Some ".dylib" installed with GHC head refers to other libraries in their build directories. E.g. {{{ % otool -L libHSvector-0.9.1-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib | grep /Users /Users/kazu/work/ghc/libraries/vector/dist- install/build/libHSvector-0.9.1-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /Users/kazu/work/ghc/libraries/primitive/dist- install/build/libHSprimitive-0.4.0.1-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) }}} (3) All user installed libraries by cabal-install refer to other libraries in their build directories. E.g. {{{ % otool -L libHSghc-paths-0.1.0.9-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib| grep Users /Users/kazu/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.7.20130909/lib/ghc- paths-0.1.0.9/lib/libHSghc-paths-0.1.0.9-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /Users/kazu/work/ghc/libraries/base/dist- install/build/libHSbase-4.7.0.0-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /Users/kazu/work/ghc/libraries/integer-gmp/dist-install/build /libHSinteger-gmp-0.5.1.0-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /Users/kazu/work/ghc/libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build /libHSghc-prim-0.3.1.0-ghc7.7.20130909.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8266> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9423: shutdownCapability sometimes loops indefinitely on OSX after hs_exit()
by GHC 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

#9423: shutdownCapability sometimes loops indefinitely on OSX after hs_exit() -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: AndreasVoellmy | Owner: simonmar Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime System | Version: 7.8.2 Keywords: | Operating System: MacOS X Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: Incorrect Difficulty: Unknown | result at runtime Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: 9284 | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Issue #9284 relates to `forkProcess`, which previously invoked the same code that is invoked by `hs_exit` and uncovered this problem. The resolution of #9284 is to not invoke the equivalent of `hs_exit` (for reasons that you can see in #9284). However, `hs_exit` can be called by programs that explicitly create and teardown a Haskell runtime, so the problem displayed by #9284 can still occur for those programs. The problem has only been observed on OS X, though it probably could occur on Linux OSes as well. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9423> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9284: shutdownCapability sometimes loops indefinitely on OSX after forkProcess
by GHC 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

#9284: shutdownCapability sometimes loops indefinitely on OSX after forkProcess ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: edsko | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- The attached Haskell program is a stress test for `forkProcess`. It starts 100 child processes, each of which do a single, safe, FFI call, after which the main process waits for all child processes to terminate. I compile the test with {{{ # gcc -c -o TestForkProcessC.o -g TestForkProcessC.c # ghc -debug -threaded -fforce-recomp -Wall TestForkProcess.hs TestForkProcessC.o }}} and then start running it until it fails (that is, until one or more of the child processes fail to terminate): {{{ # while ./TestForkProcess +RTS -N1 ; do echo "OK"; done }}} Actually, most of the time this happens pretty quickly (often even on the first call to `TestForkProcess`). Those child processes that do fail to terminate get stuck in an infinite loop in `shutdownCapability`, which looks something like: {{{ void shutdownCapability (Capability *cap, Task *task, rtsBool safe) { nat i; task->cap = cap; for (i = 0; /* i < 50 */; i++) { // ... other conditionals omitted if (cap->suspended_ccalls && safe) { cap->running_task = NULL; RELEASE_LOCK(&cap->lock); // The IO manager thread might have been slow to start up, // so the first attempt to kill it might not have // succeeded. Just in case, try again - the kill message // will only be sent once. ioManagerDie(); yieldThread(); continue; } traceSparkCounters(cap); RELEASE_LOCK(&cap->lock); break; } } }}} (note that I'm only considering the threaded RTS). In the child processes that loop indefinitely this `cap->suspended_ccalls && safe` condition gets triggered time and again. When it does, it gets stuck waiting for a single `InCall`. This `InCall` is created by a call to `newInCall` in `workerStart` -- i.e., it is created on pthread startup. That begs the question where this worker task was created; this I don't know for sure but I am fairly sure that it happens during the initialization of the IO manager. (The initialization sequence of the IO manager involves the creation of 4 tasks before we even get to `main`, so it's bit a hard to navigate.) I have some further evidence that the I/O manager is involved, although not necessarily the cause of the problem. On normal termination, the I/O manager is asked to shutdown by the call to `ioManagerDie` in `shutdownCapability`, shown above. This will send `IO_MANAGER_DIE` (`0xFE`) on the I/O managers "control pipe" (created in `GHC.Event.Thread.startTimerManagerThread`). When the timer manager thread receives this (in `GHC.Event.TimerManager.handleControlEvent`) it calls `shutdownManagers`, which shuts down the IO manager threads by sending them `io_MANAGER_DIE` on their respective pipes. This gets received by `GHC.Event.Manager.handleControlEvent` and the IO manager threads exit. (Note on capitalization: `IO_MANAGER_DIE` is the C symbol; `io_MANAGER_DIE` is the Haskell symbol.) When the child process fails to terminate, the first part of this process still happens. The timer manager thread receives `IO_MANAGER_DIE` and calls `shutdownManagers`. However, now things go wrong, and it seems they go wrong in one of two ways. The very first thing that `shutdownManagers` does is acquire the `ioManagerLock`. Sometimes it gets stuck right there. However, this is not ''always'' the case. Sometimes it does manage to acquire the lock, and I can see it going through the loop and sending the shutdown signal to the IO manager thread (I'm saying "the" because I've exclusively been testing with `-N1`). Either way, in the case that the child process gets stuck, this signal somehow never arrives at the IO manager thread (that is, I have a print statement in `readControlMessage` that prints a message when it receives `IO_MANAGER_DIE`, along with a bit of information where it was called from, and that print statement never triggers). I am not sure where to go from here. Note that I have only been able to reproduce this on OSX/ghc 7.8. I have not been able to reproduce this problem on Linux/7.8 (although there _are_ other problems with `forkProcess` on Linux, which unfortunately are proving even more elusive). The attached stress test ''does'' very often get stuck on Linux/7.4 but of course that's a different I/O manager altogether and is probably an unrelated bug. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9284> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9836: Facility to mitigate double-breakage due to Data.Version.versionTag Deprecation
by GHC 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

#9836: Facility to mitigate double-breakage due to Data.Version.versionTag Deprecation -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: hvr | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: libraries/base | Version: Keywords: Data.Version | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Easy (less than 1 | Type of failure: hour) | None/Unknown Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: #2496 | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/haskell-core-libraries/q9H- QlL_gnE -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9836> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8624: -ddump-splices-file
by GHC 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

#8624: -ddump-splices-file ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: GregWeber | 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: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I am proposing an additional feature, `-ddump-splices-file` that generates a corresponding `.hs.th` file for every `.hs` file that uses Template Haskell. `-ddump-splices` is an invaluable but a frustrating way to look at generated Haskell code. If TH generation were some kind of error message, the current output would make sense. However, TH is generating code that we rely on and would be easier to comprehend if we could see it in a way the most similar to our existing Haskell code. There is a valid complaint that when TH defines something you can't just grep for it, you have to know what TH is defining by reading documentation and imagining something that isn't in front of you. If you have a file `Foo.hs` `-ddump-splices-file` will generate `Foo.hs.th`. Then whenever someone greps after buliding they will find the declaration. If you check these files in they can grep even before building. Similarly, an IDE can show these files as the source of a declaration. Also, if the TH generation changes in some way when a TH function changes, that will be visible. This seems like a relatively easy feature to add. Any pointers on where to get started? -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8624> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9384: setNumCapabilities call breaks eventlog events
by GHC 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

#9384: setNumCapabilities call breaks eventlog events -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: slyfox | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Profiling | Version: 7.8.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Linux Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: Incorrect Difficulty: Unknown | result at runtime Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- The problem was found when i tried to eventlog '''ghc --make''' itself. I've missinterpreted is as a threadscope bug: https://github.com/haskell/ThreadScope/issues/37 Here is small program to reliably reproduce the bug: {{{#!hs module Main where import qualified Data.List as L import qualified System.Environment as E import Control.Monad import qualified Control.Concurrent as CC import qualified Control.Concurrent.MVar as CC slow_and_silly :: Int -> IO Int slow_and_silly i = return $ length $ L.foldl' (\a v -> a ++ [v]) [] [1..i] -- build as: -- $ ghc --make a -O2 -threaded -eventlog -- valid eventlog: -- $ ./a 2 7000 +RTS -ls -N2 -- $ ghc-events validate threads a.eventlog -- Valid eventlog: -- ... -- invalid eventlog -- $ ./a 2 7000 +RTS -ls -- $ ghc-events validate threads a.eventlog -- Invalid eventlog: -- ... main = do [caps, count] <- E.getArgs let n_caps :: Int n_caps = read caps max_n :: Int max_n = read count CC.setNumCapabilities n_caps waits <- replicateM n_caps $ CC.newEmptyMVar forM_ waits $ \w -> CC.forkIO $ do slow_and_silly max_n >>= print CC.putMVar w () forM_ waits $ \w -> CC.takeMVar w }}} How to reproduce (comments have '''ghc-events''' version): {{{ $ ghc --make a -O2 -threaded -eventlog $ ./a 2 7000 +RTS -ls -N2 $ threadscope a.eventlog # works $ ./a 2 7000 +RTS -ls $ threadscope a.eventlog # crashes }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9384> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8486: cannot derive new-typeable instances for promoted data types taking parameters
by GHC 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

#8486: cannot derive new-typeable instances for promoted data types taking parameters ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: aavogt | 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: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Hi, The following code shows the issue: {{{ {-# LANGUAGE DataKinds, DeriveDataTypeable, KindSignatures, PolyKinds, StandaloneDeriving #-} import Data.Typeable import GHC.TypeLits data T (a :: [*]) = T deriving (Typeable) t = T :: T [Int, Double] deriving instance Typeable '[] {- *Main> typeOf t <interactive>:24:1: No instance for (Typeable (* -> [*] -> [*]) ((':) *)) arising from a use of ‛typeOf’ In the expression: typeOf t In an equation for ‛it’: it = typeOf t -} }}} ghc7.7-20131004 doesn't allow either of the following: {{{ deriving instance (Typeable a, Typeable b) => Typeable (a ': b) -- or deriving instance Typeable (':) }}} On ghc-7.6 I could write my own `instance Typeable (T a)`, but this has been disabled it seems. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8486> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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