February 2015 - ghc-tickets

[GHC] #8118: <stdout>: commitAndReleaseBuffer: invalid argument (invalid character)
by GHC 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

#8118: <stdout>: commitAndReleaseBuffer: invalid argument (invalid character) ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: OpenBSD Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: Runtime crash Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- I get the following error... {{{ <stdout>: commitAndReleaseBuffer: invalid argument (invalid character) }}} When running following program: {{{#!haskell {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-} import qualified Data.Text as T import qualified Data.Text.IO as T main = T.putStrLn "čušpajž日本語" }}} Was tested in #haskell and I have all the UTF-8 Settings set and so forth. It compiles just fine, but crashes during runtime. gcc -v: {{{ Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/amd64-unknown-openbsd5.4/4.2.1/specs Target: amd64-unknown-openbsd5.4 Configured with: OpenBSD/amd64 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 4.2.1 20070719 }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8118> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #10016: UNPACK support for existentials
by GHC 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

#10016: UNPACK support for existentials -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: simonpj | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Milestone: Priority: normal | Version: 7.8.4 Component: Compiler | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Keywords: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Architecture: | Blocked By: Unknown/Multiple | Related Tickets: Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Consider {{{ data Foo = forall a. Show a => Foo !a !a data Bar = Bar {-# UNPACK #-} !Foo }}} The UNPACK pragma should really be able to unpack the `Foo` field, so that (implementation-wise) it would be as if you'd declared `Bar` thus: {{{ data Bar = forall a. Show a => Bar !a !a }}} But currently we get {{{ Ignoring unusable UNPACK pragma on the first argument of ‘Bar’ }}} Suggested by Nicholas Clarke [https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow- haskell-users/2015-January/025590.html here]. Vaguely related tickets: #7647, #9214. But unlike those ones, this one looks quite feasible to me. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10016> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9406: unexpected failure for T7837(profasm)
by GHC 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

#9406: unexpected failure for T7837(profasm) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: jrp | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Test Suite | Version: 7.8.3 Keywords: T7837 | Operating System: MacOS X Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: Incorrect Difficulty: Unknown | result at runtime Blocked By: | Test Case: T7837 Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This may be a test suite configuration error as the normal case works. When run with an llvm-perf build of the HEAD, I get: {{{ =====> T7837(normal) 1395 of 4068 [0, 0, 0] cd ./indexed-types/should_compile && '/Users/jrp/Projects/haskell/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' -fforce-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-ghci-history -c T7837.hs -O -ddump-rule-firings >T7837.comp.stderr 2>&1 =====> T7837(profasm) 1395 of 4068 [0, 0, 0] cd ./indexed-types/should_compile && '/Users/jrp/Projects/haskell/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' -fforce-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-ghci-history -c T7837.hs -O -prof -static -auto-all -O -ddump-rule- firings >T7837.comp.stderr 2>&1 Actual stderr output differs from expected: --- ./indexed-types/should_compile/T7837.stderr 2014-08-03 11:36:53.000000000 +0100 +++ ./indexed-types/should_compile/T7837.comp.stderr 2014-08-04 23:16:34.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ Rule fired: Class op abs Rule fired: Class op signum Rule fired: normalize/Double +Rule fired: Class op / *** unexpected failure for T7837(profasm) Unexpected results from: TEST="T7837" OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Mon Aug 4 23:16:32 2014 BST 0:00:02 spent to go through 4068 total tests, which gave rise to 19536 test cases, of which 19534 were skipped 0 had missing libraries 1 expected passes 0 expected failures 0 caused framework failures 0 unexpected passes 1 unexpected failures Unexpected failures: indexed-types/should_compile T7837 [stderr mismatch] (profasm) }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9406> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #10068: Make the runtime reflection API for names, modules, locations more systematic
by GHC 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

#10068: Make the runtime reflection API for names, modules, locations more systematic -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: simonpj | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 7.12.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.4 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Test Case: | Related Tickets: Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Currently in `base` we have * `GHC.SrcLoc`: the data type `SrcLoc` contains `srcLocPackage` and `srcLocModule` * `Data.Typeable.Internals`: the data type `TyCon` contains `tyConPackage`, `tyConModule` and `tyConName. * `GHC.Generics`: the data type `Datatype` contains `dataTypePackage`, `dataTypeModule` and `dataTypeName` * `Data.Data`: the data type `DataType` (yes the capitalisation differs!) contains a field `tycon :: String`, and there are functions `tyconModule :: String -> String`, and `tyconUQname :: String -> String`, for parsing that string and extracting the module name and tycon name. * `GHC.StaticPtr`: the data type `StaticPtrInfo` contains `spInfoPackageKey`, `spInfoModuleName`, `spInfoName` (all `String`s). Oh, and `spInfoSrcLoc :: (Int,Int)` too! This is madness! Five different representations for the same information in one package! Let's fix this by defining some shared data types, for * `Module` = `ModuleName` + package * `Entity` = `Module` + unqualified name There would be a tiresome changeover period; but `Typeable` and `StaticPtr` are in flux anyway. Would anyone be willing to lead on this? -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10068> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9671: Allow expressions in patterns
by GHC 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

#9671: Allow expressions in patterns -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Iceland_jack | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: Compiler | Version: Keywords: patterns, pattern | Operating System: synonyms | Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: Difficulty: Unknown | None/Unknown Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I've outlined a proposal for extending pattern synonyms to depend on terms (PatternFamilies), the name is less than ideal but I'll keep the page under that name for now. The proposal's introduction has been rewritten. The simplest use case are patterns that matches only when a set contains an element (`IsMember`) or when a set does not contain an element (`NotMember`): [[Image(wiki:PatternFamilies:member.png)]] {{{#!hs hasKeys :: Set Item -> IO () hasKeys (IsMember "keys") = leaveHouse hasKeys (NotMember "keys") = findKeys >> leaveHouse }}} or a pattern that matches a map if the key exists: [[Image(wiki:PatternFamilies:lookup.png)]] used like this: {{{#!hs age :: Map Person Age -> String age (Lookup "Alice" 60) = "Alice is 60 years old!" age (Lookup "Alice" age) = "Alice is " ++ show age ++ "." age (Lookup "Bob" _) = "No info on Alice but we know how old Bob is." age _ = "..." }}} Further details and examples can be found here: PatternFamilies, I discussed it with several people ICFP 2014. This would not require a new extension but would extend PatternSynonyms. This feature can be quite useful, especially when working with deeply nested structures (ASTs, JSON, XML, ...). If people are fine with it I will implement it. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9671> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8542: Suggest NegativeLiterals
by GHC 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

#8542: Suggest NegativeLiterals ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: monoidal | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | 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: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- If we write -128 :: Int8, we get a useful warning (#7895), but it would be even better to suggest NegativeLiterals. Patch incoming. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8542> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8772: ghci should safe history more often
by GHC 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

#8772: ghci should safe history more often ----------------------------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: nomeata | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: GHCi | Version: 7.6.3 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: ----------------------------------------------+---------------------------- It is very annoying if `ghci` crashes (due to using a foreign library wrongly, for example), and then the history is lost. It should be simple to save each line to history before it is being executed. Maybe a good task for new contributors? -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8772> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8597: Git Hook script to prevent large binary blobs being checked in
by GHC 24 Feb '18

24 Feb '18

#8597: Git Hook script to prevent large binary blobs being checked in ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: hvr | Owner: hvr Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Trac & Git | Version: Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- It has already occurred in the past in `testsuite.git` repo, that executables were checked in by accident, and caused the Git history to get bloated. In order to avoid such accidents in the future a Git hook script in the style of [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20226132/is-there-a-git-hook- which-can-prevent-binary-check-ins this] might be useful, but taking also into account the size, and/or possibly with a magic safeword to be put in the commit message, to override the check for a single commit, if the author really knows what (s)he's doing. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8597> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9429: Alternative to type family Any
by GHC 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

#9429: Alternative to type family Any -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: mboes | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.9 Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Unknown | Type of failure: Blocked By: | None/Unknown Related Tickets: 9097, 9380 | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- In GHC HEAD, `Any` is no longer a datatype. There are good reasons for this change, one of which was explained in #9097, the original ticket, and another in #9380. Unfortunately, a casualty of this change is that it is no longer easy to generalize the [https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rank1dynamic|rank1dynamic package] to rank-1 types with type variables of arbitrary kind (not just `*`). We submitted a way to do so [here], that exploits the fact that `Any` has the very magical property of inhabiting *all* kinds, including closed ones. This works for GHC 7.8, but won't work in HEAD, because we require that there exists a `Typeable` instance for `Any`, just as there are `Typeable` instances for any other type one wishes to have instances for. The reason is that now that `Any` is a type family, `Any` is no longer a legal instance head. There are several possible solutions that I see: * while it's clearly dangerous for the compiler to be inserting the old `Any` during typechecking from the moment that we have computation in types over closed kinds, we may still want the old `Any`, say under a different name, as a backdoor. It wouldn't be used by the compiler during type checking - only by packages such as rank1dynamic. I believe that furthermore, if we restrict the old `Any` to not inhabit closed kinds, then none of the problems cited in the above tickets arise. * Instead of making the new `Any` a type family, keep it a datatype, but ban it from inhabiting closed kinds. I don't know if such an `Any` would be sufficient for the purposes of GHC, however. * Hardwire a `Typeable` instance for the `Any` type family (not sure if this makes sense). -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9429> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8258: GHC accepts `data Foo where` in H2010 mode
by GHC 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

#8258: GHC accepts `data Foo where` in H2010 mode --------------------------+------------------------------------------------ Reporter: hvr | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: | Version: 7.0.4 Compiler | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Keywords: | Type of failure: GHC accepts invalid program Architecture: | Test Case: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking: Difficulty: | Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | --------------------------+------------------------------------------------ According to the Haskell2010 report, The grammar productions relevant for `data` declarations are the following: {{{ topdecl → data [context =>] simpletype [= constrs] [deriving] }}} (from [http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch4.html#x10-680004.2 4.2.1 Algebraic Datatype Declarations]) However, GHC 7.0.4/7.4.2/7.6.3/HEAD all happily compile the following Haskell module without any warning when using `-XHaskell2010 -Wall`, even though this is not valid Haskell2010 afaik: {{{#!hs module Foo where data Foo where }}} The trailing `where` in the `data` declaration is not valid Haskell2010 (without language extensions such as `GADT`). At the very least, this divergence from the Haskell Report should be mentioned in [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide /bugs-and-infelicities.html#haskell-standards-divergence 14.1.1. Divergence from Haskell 98 and Haskell 2010]. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8258> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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