September 2014 - ghc-tickets

[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] #9523: Typo in GHC Generics documentation
by GHC 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

#9523: Typo in GHC Generics documentation -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: dfeuer | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.8.4 Component: Documentation | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- In `GHC.Generics`: The types `S`, `C` and `R` are once again type-level proxies, just used to create several variants of `M1`. The `R`, it seems, is supposed to be a `D`. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9523> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9527: Add Generic instances for Language.Haskell.TH
by GHC 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

#9527: Add Generic instances for Language.Haskell.TH -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: nh2 | 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: Moderate (less | Type of failure: than a day) | None/Unknown Blocked By: 9526 | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Template Haskell has a number of huge data types that would be much easier to work with if they had `Generic` instances. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9527> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9563: Support for deriving Generic1 for data families
by GHC 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

#9563: Support for deriving Generic1 for data families -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: mnislaih | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.2 Keywords: | Operating System: MacOS X Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: GHC Difficulty: Unknown | rejects valid program Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- The following code: {{{#!hs import GHC.Generics data family F typ :: * -> * data A data instance F A a = AData a deriving Generic1 }}} produces an error when run with ghc 7.8.2 or 7.8.3: {{{ Couldn't match type ‘Rep1 (F A)’ with ‘M1 t0 t1 (M1 t2 t3 (M1 t4 t5 Par1))’ The type variables ‘t0’, ‘t1’, ‘t2’, ‘t3’, ‘t4’, ‘t5’ are ambiguous Expected type: Rep1 (F A) a Actual type: M1 t0 t1 (M1 t2 t3 (M1 t4 t5 Par1)) a In the pattern: M1 (M1 (M1 g1)) In an equation for ‘to1’: to1 (M1 (M1 (M1 g1))) = AData (unPar1 g1) In the instance declaration for ‘Generic1 (F A)’ }}} whereas ghc 7.6.3 simply refuses to go ahead with the message: {{{ generic1.hs:14:40: Derived instance `Generic1 (F A)' requires illegal partial application of data type family F In the data instance declaration for `F' }}} Either a check has gone missing in 7.8.x, or a bug has crept up in the Generic1 support. I have gone through past tickets and https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5936 suggests that it is the latter. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9563> 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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[GHC] #8731: long compilation time for module with large data type and partial record selectors
by GHC 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

#8731: long compilation time for module with large data type and partial record selectors -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: carter | Status: new Type: bug | Milestone: Priority: | Version: 7.8.1-rc1 normal | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Component: | Type of failure: Compile-time performance bug Compiler | Test Case: Keywords: | Blocking: Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple | Difficulty: | Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- in both ghc 7.6 and 7.8rc, the Constants module in LLVM-General-Pure (and a few other similar modules) have surprisingly long (and noticable!) compilation times. This seems to related to how GHC handles a many constructor data type with overlapping field names. the time is nearly the same for building a static module with O1 and O2 {{{ carter repoScratcher/bad-ast » time ghc Constant.hs -O2 1 ↵ [1 of 1] Compiling Constant ( Constant.hs, Constant.o ) ghc Constant.hs -O2 7.52s user 0.23s system 99% cpu 7.755 total }}} {{{ carter repoScratcher/bad-ast » time ghc Constant.hs -O1 [1 of 1] Compiling Constant ( Constant.hs, Constant.o ) ghc Constant.hs -O1 6.62s user 0.20s system 100% cpu 6.768 total }}} heck even with -O0 its slow (though not terrible) {{{ carter repoScratcher/bad-ast » time ghc Constant.hs -O0 [1 of 1] Compiling Constant ( Constant.hs, Constant.o ) ghc Constant.hs -O0 2.76s user 0.14s system 101% cpu 2.873 total }}} Seems like there might something wrong in how we handle data types like this, the complexity need not -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8731> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9405: Ticky results should be displayed even during interrupts (Ctrl-c)
by GHC 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

#9405: Ticky results should be displayed even during interrupts (Ctrl-c) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: thoughtpolice | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Unknown | Type of failure: Blocked By: | None/Unknown Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- After talking with Simon & Simon today, we discussed ticky profiling, and it dawned on us that ticky probably isn't reported when the program is interrupted via the user. But it should be! The motivating case is when you're dealing with an infinite loop and you want to find the binding that has a high entry count (i.e. it's the looping body). But the only way to move forward is to interrupt it, which doesn't spit out the reports. Fixing this would make ticky much more useful in such cases. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9405> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8132: Warning for Typeable instances misplaced
by GHC 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

#8132: Warning for Typeable instances misplaced -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: scottgw | Status: new Type: bug | Milestone: Priority: | Version: 7.7 normal | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Component: | Type of failure: Incorrect warning at Compiler | compile-time Keywords: | Test Case: Architecture: | Blocking: Unknown/Multiple | Difficulty: | Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- There is currently a warning for hand-rolled instances of Typeable. However, this leads to some pretty surprising error messages: because the instance is ignored any code that relies on that instance in the same module just fails, which appears pretty weird to the user. {{{ #!haskell import Data.Typeable data K = K instance Typeable K where typeRep _ = undefined ex :: TypeRep ex = typeRep (undefined :: Proxy K) }}} Gives as an error: {{{ No instance for (Typeable * K) arising from a use of ‛typeRep’ In the expression: typeRep (undefined :: Proxy K) In an equation for ‛ex’: ex = typeRep (undefined :: Proxy K) }}} Which is of course surprising because the user just defined the instance. After commenting out the code that uses the instance, one gets: {{{ TypEx.hs:1:1: Warning: Typeable instances can only be derived; ignoring the following instance: instance Typeable * K -- Defined at TypEx.hs:5:10 }}} This information should clearly be somehow presented before or with the previous error if the user is to have any way to figure out what is going on. I suppose this could be fixed by: 1. Turning the Typeable instance warning into an error 2. Checking the missing instance in the existing error for Typeable and suggest that the user should look for hand written instances as a source of the problem. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8132> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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