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[GHC] #9059: Excessive space usage while generating code for fractional literals with big exponents
by GHC 19 May '16

19 May '16

#9059: Excessive space usage while generating code for fractional literals with big exponents ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: basvandijk | 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: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Generating (byte-)code for fractional literals with big exponents causes excessive space usage: {{{ $ ghci -ddump-bcos GHCi, version 7.6.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> let r=1e1000 :: Rational ==================== Proto-BCOs ==================== ProtoBCO ExprTopLevel_E0#0 []: let sat_so4 = ... in ... bitmap: 0 [] ALLOC_AP 0 PUSH_BCO ProtoBCO sat_so4#0 []: let sat_snX = ... in ... bitmap: 0 [] PUSH_UBX (1) 1 PACK GHC.Integer.Type.S# 1 ALLOC_AP 0 PUSH_BCO ProtoBCO sat_snY#0 []: let sat_siH = ... in ... bitmap: 0 [] STKCHECK 544 PUSH_UBX (1) 30 PACK GHC.Types.I# 1 PUSH_G GHC.Types.[] PUSH_L 1 PACK : 2 PUSH_UBX (1) 953884573 PACK GHC.Types.I# 1 PUSH_LL 1 0 PACK : 2 PUSH_UBX (1) 1777164331 PACK GHC.Types.I# 1 PUSH_LL 1 0 PACK : 2 PUSH_UBX (1) 1665817172 PACK GHC.Types.I# 1 PUSH_LL 1 0 PACK : 2 PUSH_UBX (1) 1937337765 PACK GHC.Types.I# 1 PUSH_LL 1 0 PACK : 2 PUSH_UBX (1) 799142572 PACK GHC.Types.I# 1 PUSH_LL 1 0 PACK : 2 PUSH_UBX (1) 1439062260 PACK GHC.Types.I# 1 PUSH_LL 1 0 PACK : 2 PUSH_UBX (1) 1049546550 PACK GHC.Types.I# 1 PUSH_LL 1 0 PACK : 2 PUSH_UBX (1) 580758741 PACK GHC.Types.I# 1 PUSH_LL 1 0 PACK : 2 PUSH_UBX (1) 139570364 PACK GHC.Types.I# 1 PUSH_LL 1 0 PACK : 2 ... }}} Increasing the exponent to say a 1000000 will quickly fill up the memory of my machine. A similar problem occurs while compiling: !BigExponentBug.hs: {{{ module BigExponentBug (r) where r = 1e100 :: Rational }}} {{{ ghc --make BigExponentBug.hs -ddump-simpl [1 of 1] Compiling BigExponentBug ( BigExponentBug.hs, BigExponentBug.o ) ==================== Tidy Core ==================== Result size of Tidy Core = {terms: 9, types: 5, coercions: 0} BigExponentBug.r :: GHC.Real.Rational [GblId] BigExponentBug.r = GHC.Real.fromRational @ GHC.Real.Rational (GHC.Real.$fFractionalRatio @ GHC.Integer.Type.Integer (GHC.Real.$fNumRatio @ GHC.Integer.Type.Integer GHC.Real.$fIntegralInteger) GHC.Real.$fIntegralInteger) (GHC.Real.:% @ GHC.Integer.Type.Integer (__integer 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000) (__integer 1)) }}} Again increasing the exponent to 1000000 quickly invokes the OOM killer on my machine. P.S. This bug was discovered while fixing a [https://github.com/bos/aeson/issues/198 related bug] in `aeson`. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9059> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8207: Show instance for Language in DynFlags
by GHC 17 May '16

17 May '16

#8207: Show instance for Language in DynFlags ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Fuuzetsu | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: GHC API | Version: 7.7 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I feel that the GHC API could benefit from a Show instance for Language in DynFlags.hs. Currently, if we want to display the language being used we have to do something like {{{ foo inf = case hmi_language inf of Nothing -> Nothing Just Haskell98 -> Just "Haskell98" Just Haskell2010 -> Just "Haskell2010" }}} This is pretty much just the Show instance (over Maybe) and Haskell can derive it for us automatically: we just need to change `deriving Enum` to `deriving (Enum, Show)`. The above solution is not the most robust ever as if this data type is ever changed, this starts to form an incomplete pattern. If we have a catch all `_`, GHC complains about overlapping patterns. Easily solved with `show <$> hmi_language inf`. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8207> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8865: Cannot derive well-kinded instance of form ‘Category
by GHC 02 May '16

02 May '16

#8865: Cannot derive well-kinded instance of form ‘Category ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: adinapoli | Status: new Type: bug | Milestone: 7.8.1 Priority: normal | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Component: Compiler | Operating System: MacOS X Keywords: | Type of failure: GHC rejects valid program Architecture: x86_64 | Test Case: (amd64) | Blocking: Difficulty: Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Hello everyone, sorry if this was already reported somewhere. I'm playing with GHC 7.8.1 RC2 and I'm updating hsenv to support GHC 7.8. This is a real code snippet, which was compiling fine in GHC 7.6.x {{{ newtype ArgArrow a b = ArgArrow (StaticArrowT KnownArgs (Kleisli (ReaderT Args IO)) a b) deriving (Category, Arrow, ArrowChoice) }}} but that yields the following in GHC 7.8.1-RC2 {{{ Cannot derive well-kinded instance of form ‘Category (ArgArrow ...)’ Class ‘Category’ expects an argument of kind ‘k -> k -> *’ In the newtype declaration for ‘ArgArrow’ }}} This might be related to the new feature of GHC 7.8, namely "kind variables" (you get the idea, even if the name is not 100% accurate). To make the code compile I had to enable {{{ StandaloneDeriving }}} and write the following: {{{ newtype ArgArrow a b = ArgArrow (StaticArrowT KnownArgs (Kleisli (ReaderT Args IO)) a b) deriving (Arrow, ArrowChoice) deriving instance Category ArgArrow }}} Is this by design or is a genuine bug? Thanks! Alfredo -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8865> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9253: "internal error: evacuate(static): strange closure type 0" when running in QEMU
by GHC 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

#9253: "internal error: evacuate(static): strange closure type 0" when running in QEMU ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ocharles | Owner: simonmar Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime System | Version: 7.8.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: Runtime crash Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- We're trying to use NixOS to automatically run our acceptance tests in a VM on commit, in order to guarantee system stability. However, we're periodically seeing our web server component, compiled with GHC 7.8.2 is failing to start up. When it fails, the error message is always: {{{ internal error: evacuate(static): strange closure type 0 (GHC version 7.8.2 for x86_64_unknown_linux) Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug }}} Happy to do more debugging on this, but I'll need to be pointed in the right direction. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9253> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8524: GHC is inconsistent with the Haskell Report on which Unicode characters are allowed in string and character literals
by GHC 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

#8524: GHC is inconsistent with the Haskell Report on which Unicode characters are allowed in string and character literals ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: oerjan | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: GHC rejects valid program Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: Difficulty: Unknown | Blocking: Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- GHC is inconsistent with the Haskell Report on which Unicode characters are allowed in string and character literals. (And I don't like either option, why leave out any characters in strings unnecessarily?) Examples from ghci 7.6.3 (also tested in lambdabot on irc): {{{ Prelude> "" -- Unicode char \8203, Format class. <interactive>:10:2: lexical error in string/character literal at character '\8203' Prelude> " " -- Unicode char \8202, Space class. "\8202" Prelude> "t\ \est" -- Unicode char \8202 in a string gap. <interactive>:14:4: lexical error in string/character literal at character '\8202' }}} My reading of http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch2.html (section 2.2 and 2.6): * The report BNF token "graphic", which can be used in literals, includes indirectly many Unicode classes, but uniWhite is not one of them. Thus the only Unicode whitespace allowed to represent itself in literals is ASCII space. * Unicode formatting characters are not mentioned in the BNF that I can see, so are not allowed in literals. * String gaps are made out of the report BNF token whitespace, which ''does'' include uniWhite. Who wants what: || ||= GHC =||= Report =||= Me =|| || Format in string || No || No || Yes || || Space/uniWhite in string || Yes || No || Yes || || Space/uniWhite in string gap || No || Yes || Dunno || In short, GHC's behavior is buggy and/or annoying in two opposite ways: * It leaves out some Unicode characters as allowable in strings and character literals, presumably because the report says so. * It allows some characters the report says it ''shouldn't'', and refuses some characters the report says it ''should''. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8524> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8468: ghc panic in deriving Generic1 on Array#
by GHC 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

#8468: ghc panic in deriving Generic1 on Array# -----------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: ghorn | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: Compile-time crash Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: Difficulty: Unknown | Blocking: Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | -----------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Compiling the following code {{{ {-# Language DeriveGeneric, MagicHash #-} module Test where import GHC.Generics import GHC.Prim data Array a = Array (Array# a) newtype Vec a = MkVec {unVec :: Array a} deriving Generic1 }}} causes panic: {{{ [1 of 1] Compiling Test ( Test.hs, Test.o ) ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.6.3 for x86_64-unknown-linux): No match in record selector tyConTyVars Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug }}} some comments from IRC: <monoidal> with deriving Generic1 we get "Can't make a derived instance of `Generic1 Array': Array must not have unlifted or polymorphic arguments" - so it seems the check is not done recursively on used types <monoidal> * deriving Generic1 on Array -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8468> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8416: GHC.Generics needs more documentation
by GHC 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

#8416: GHC.Generics needs more documentation -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: tibbe | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: libraries (other) | 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: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Recently I tried to used `GHC.Generics` "in anger" for the first time, to fix some code in hashable that wasn't originally written by me. After a while I just gave up (and the generics support in hashable is now somewhat broken). The documentation for `GHC.Generics` is too incomprehensible for mere mortals. In particular, I find the documentation for `M1` and `K1` not very helpful. The documentation needs examples, more in-depth explanations of what each of the data types/constructors is used for, and finally an explanation of the up to 4 type parameters! -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8416> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8797: Generics instances for monoid and applicative newtypes
by GHC 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

#8797: Generics instances for monoid and applicative newtypes -------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: jcristovao | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: libraries/base | Version: 7.6.3 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: -------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Hi, Is there any particular reason why there aren't Generic instances for the newtypes under Data.Monoid and Control.Applicative (for example)? I've tried adding them to GHC/Generics.hs and base compiles without problems. Could this addition be considered? Best Regards, João -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8797> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8929: Deriving Generics broken
by GHC 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

#8929: Deriving Generics broken ----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ----------------------------------+------------------------------------- I load the following code into ghci: == {-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-} import GHC.Generics import Data.Binary data Foo = Foo deriving (Show, Generic) instance Binary Foo == Then I execute: (decode . encode $ Foo) :: Foo In 7.6.3 (stage 2 booted 7.6.3), I get an error. In 7.6.3 (stage 2 booted 7.6.2), the desired result "Foo" is shown. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8929> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8594: sysctl name "hw.ncpu" (HW_NCPU) is deprecated in Mac OS X
by GHC 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

#8594: sysctl name "hw.ncpu" (HW_NCPU) is deprecated in Mac OS X ------------------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: kseo | Owner: simonmar Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime System | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: MacOS X Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+--------------------------------- According to the OS X man page for sysctl(https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Referen…, HW_NCPU used by the current implementation of getNumberOfProcessors() is deprecated. Instead, Mac OS X provides the following 4 options: * hw.physicalcpu: The number of physical processors available in the current power management mode. * hw.physicalcpu_max: The maximum number of physical processors that could be available this boot. * hw.logicalcpu: The number of logical processors available in the current power management mode. * hw.logicalcpu_max: The maximum number of logical processors that could be available this boot. I am not sure which one fits best to GHC runtime. Any idea? sysconf implementation of getNumberOfProcessors() seems to prefer _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN to _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF when both are defined. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8594> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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