December 2015 - ghc-tickets

[GHC] #9370: large blowup in memory usage and time when doing parallel build of xmlhtml package
by GHC 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

#9370: large blowup in memory usage and time when doing parallel build of xmlhtml package -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: carter | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Unknown | Type of failure: Blocked By: | None/Unknown Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I've observed a blowup in ghc memory usage when invoked with parallel build flags. to reproduce {{{ cabal get xmlhtml-0.2.3.2 cabal install xmlhtml-0.2.3.2 --only-dependencies cd xmlhtml-0.2.3.2 }}} then {{{ cabal clean ; cabal configure --ghc-options="-j4" ; time cabal build -j4 -v3 }}} will take quite a while and use > 1gb of ram whereas {{{ cabal clean ; cabal configure --ghc-options="-j1 ; time cabal build -j1 -v3 }}} will use < 150mb of ram. Based upon the output of cabal build -j4 -v3, it looks like the parallel build is spending a lottt more time in the simplifier passes. I'm not sure what changes between the parallel and sequential builds to change this. I'll try to dig into this more in a few days, but recording this problem now before i forget. (though of course any insights would be appreciated) -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9370> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8635: GHC optimisation flag ignored when importing a local module with derived type classes
by GHC 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

#8635: GHC optimisation flag ignored when importing a local module with derived type classes ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: NeilMitchell | 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: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Given Foo.hs and Bar.hs: {{{ module Foo where data Food = Food -- deriving Eq {-# OPTIONS_GHC -O2 -ddump-simpl #-} module Bar where import Foo bar :: Int -> Bool bar x = x == 72 }}} If I run: {{{ ghc --make Bar -fforce-recomp }}} I get (snipped): {{{ Bar.bar = \ (x_afk :: GHC.Types.Int) -> case x_afk of _ { GHC.Types.I# x1_alo -> case x1_alo of _ { __DEFAULT -> GHC.Types.False; 72 -> GHC.Types.True } } }}} `bar` now looks pretty well optimised. However, if I uncomment the `deriving Eq` I get: {{{ Bar.bar1 = GHC.Types.I# 72 Bar.bar2 = GHC.Classes.== @ GHC.Types.Int GHC.Classes.$fEqInt Bar.bar = \ (x_amD :: GHC.Types.Int) -> Bar.bar2 x_amD Bar.bar1 }}} Now `bar` looks like terrible code, using dictionaries, boxing etc. It seems adding `deriving` in the imported and unused module makes it ignore the optimisation level. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8635> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #10857: "ghci -XMonomorphismRestriction" doesn't turn on the monomorphism restriction
by GHC 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

#10857: "ghci -XMonomorphismRestriction" doesn't turn on the monomorphism restriction -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: rwbarton | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: GHCi | Version: 7.10.1 Keywords: newcomer | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Compare {{{ rwbarton@morphism:/tmp$ ghci-7.10.1 -XMonomorphismRestriction GHCi, version 7.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Prelude> let a = (+) Prelude> :t a a :: Num a => a -> a -> a }}} with {{{ rwbarton@morphism:/tmp$ ghci-7.10.1 GHCi, version 7.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Prelude> :set -XMonomorphismRestriction Prelude> let a = (+) Prelude> :t a a :: Integer -> Integer -> Integer }}} Confusing! This also occurred in 7.8. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10857> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9693: Reloading GHCi with Template Haskell names can panic GHC
by GHC 03 Feb '19

03 Feb '19

#9693: Reloading GHCi with Template Haskell names can panic GHC -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: maxs | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Unknown | Type of failure: GHC Blocked By: | rejects valid program Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- First, load the following program into GHCi. '''Fun.hs''' {{{#!hs module Fun where import Language.Haskell.TH stuff = do -- let x = mkName "X" x <- newName "X" sequence $ [dataD (return []) x [] [ normalC x [] ] []] }}} '''thbug.hs''' {{{#!hs {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} import Fun stuff }}} Then comment out the newName, un comment the mkName and reload GHCi. {{{ ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.8.3 for x86_64-apple-darwin): kcLookupKind APromotionErr RecDataConPE Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug }}} It is important to note this is a valid program, if you then close GHCi and start it again with the modified file, it will load correctly. Reloading after attempting to compile the newName version will cause a panic. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9693> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #11084: Some type families don't reduce with :kind!
by GHC 03 Feb '19

03 Feb '19

#11084: Some type families don't reduce with :kind! -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: goldfire | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Sadly, I'm unable to reproduce this without `singletons`. :( Observe: {{{ > ghci GHCi, version 7.10.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Prelude> import Data.Promotion.Prelude -- singletons-2.0.1 Prelude Data.Promotion.Prelude> :kind! Lookup 'True '[ '(True, True) ] Lookup 'True '[ '(True, True) ] :: Maybe Bool = Data.Singletons.Prelude.List.Case_1628035408 'True 'True 'True '[] (Data.Singletons.Apply (Data.Singletons.Apply (:==$) 'True) 'True) Prelude Data.Promotion.Prelude> :kind! Lookup 'True '[ '(True, True) ] Lookup 'True '[ '(True, True) ] :: Maybe Bool = JustSym1 'True }}} Note that the exact same command run twice yields different results. I tried peeking at `-ddump-tc-trace` but got nothing of use. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11084> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #11004: hsc2hs does not handle single quotes properly
by GHC 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

#11004: hsc2hs does not handle single quotes properly -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: sergv | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: hsc2hs | Version: 7.10.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- The tool gets confused by quotes for promoted constructors (https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/promotion.h… #promotion-syntax). Here's an example: {{{#!hs {-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-} {-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-} data Foo = Foo | Bar data Indexed ix where Indexed :: Indexed 'Foo main :: IO () main = print $ #size int }}} gets translated into {{{#!hs {-# LINE 1 "Test.hsc" #-} {-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-} {-# LINE 2 "Test.hsc" #-} {-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-} data Foo = Foo | Bar data Indexed ix where Indexed :: Indexed 'Foo main :: IO () main = print $ #size int }}} Then GHC complains about `#size`: {{{ Test.hsc:10:16: parse error on input ‘#’ }}} Judging from the source of utils/hsc2hs/HSCParser.hs, the tool treats single quotes the same way as double quotes. I.e. it looks for balanced, possibly multiline, strings delimited by '. At least, it seems unnecessary to expect newlines in that string-like structure, because character literals cannot contain newlines, AFAIK. It's interesting to note that this problem looks like a bit of an edge case, since highlighting in the ticket seems to be confused as well. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11004> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #11222: Teach strictness analysis about `catch`-like operations
by GHC 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

#11222: Teach strictness analysis about `catch`-like operations -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: Runtime Unknown/Multiple | performance bug Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Consider the `catch#` primop, {{{#!hs catch# :: (State# RealWorld -> (# State# RealWorld, a #) ) -- ^ thing to catch exceptions from -> (b -> State# RealWorld -> (# State# RealWorld, a #) ) -- ^ exception handler -> State# RealWorld -> (# State# RealWorld, a #) }}} Semantically, this operation will always evaluate its first argument. Ideally we would indicate this in the primop's strictness signature in `primops.txt.pp`. Sadly, we can't do this at the moment due to a subtle wrinkle (discovered in #10712): Consider, {{{#!hs let r = \st -> raiseIO# blah st in catch (\st -> ...(r st)..) handler st }}} If we give the first argument of catch a strict signature, we'll get a demand `C(S)` for `r`; that is, `r` is definitely called with one argument, which indeed it is. The trouble comes when we feed `C(S)` into `r`'s RHS as the demand of the body as this will lead us to conclude that the whole `let` will diverge; clearly this isn't right. As Simon noted in ticket:10712#comment:4, > There's something very special about catch: it turns divergence into non-divergence. In order to apply a proper strictness signature to `catch`-like operations we would need to teach the strictness analyzer about this property. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11222> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9173: Better type error messages
by GHC 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

#9173: Better type error messages ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: simonpj | 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 better type-error messages is a hoary chestnut, but Herbert brought my attention to [https://pay.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26tcrk/curious_with_a_bit_of_begi… this thread on reddit], which has the following idea. At the moment, from {{{ module Foo where addThree = \x -> x + 3 :: Int y = addThree $ Just 5 }}} we get this error: {{{ Foo.hs:2:20 Couldn't match expected type `Int' with actual type `Maybe a0' In the return type of a call of `Just' In the second argument of `($)', namely `Just 5' In the expression: addThree $ Just 5 }}} Maybe we could generate this instead {{{ Foo.hs:2:20 inferred: "Just 5" has type "Maybe a0" expected: second argument of "($)" must have type "Int" in the expression: addThree $ Just 5 }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9173> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9476: Implement late lambda-lifting
by GHC 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

#9476: Implement late lambda-lifting -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: simonpj | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This ticket exists to coordinate work on Nick Frisby's '''late lambda- lifting''' optimisation. * Wiki page: [wiki:LateLamLift]. All the details are here. * Branch in GHC repo: `wip/llf` * Related tickets * #9279: local closure remains in final program * #9374: static argument transformation -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9476> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9251: ghc does not expose brancheless max/min operations as primops
by GHC 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

#9251: ghc does not expose brancheless max/min operations as primops ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: carter | Owner: carter Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.1 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: #9246 | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- It was pointed out in #9246 that GHC currently does not expose primops for Max and Min on various unlifted types such as Float# and Double# and Int# and Word#, but that on most modern CPU architectures there is instruction level support for these operations. (Eg, Float# and #Double min and max can be provided on any 64bit x86 system pretty easily ) This ticket is to track doing that task. I'll probably do it one of the next two weekends to get back in the GHC hacking groove, or maybe this should be used as a "getting started" ticket for a new contributor? -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9251> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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