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[GHC] #9533: Signed/unsigned integer difference between compiled and interpreted code
by GHC 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

#9533: Signed/unsigned integer difference between compiled and interpreted code -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: MichaelBurge | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Windows Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: Incorrect Difficulty: Unknown | result at runtime Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- The following code outputs "A". {{{#!hs import Data.Word x :: Word x = 10 y :: Word y = 11 test = case x - y of -1 -> "A" _ -> "B" main = putStrLn $ show test }}} However, adding a new case that isn't matched causes the output to change: {{{#!hs import Data.Word x :: Word x = 10 y :: Word y = 11 test = case x - y of 5 -> "C" -1 -> "A" _ -> "B" main = putStrLn $ show test }}} With the extra '5 -> "C"' line in the case, the output is "B". It gets weirder - interpreted code actually continues to match the -1 case. With the second example in a file 'T.hs', here is a GHCi session: {{{ Prelude Main> :l *T.hs [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( T.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: Main. *Main> main "A" *Main> :l T.hs Ok, modules loaded: Main. Prelude Main> main "B" Prelude Main> }}} These examples suggest to me at least 3 improvements: * Issue a warning when a negative number is used in a case statement in unsigned context * Interpreted code should give the same result as compiled code * Adding a case that isn't matched shouldn't change which other patterns get matched -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9533> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #10343: Make Typeable track kind information better
by GHC 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

#10343: Make Typeable track kind information better -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: oerjan | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Milestone: Priority: normal | Version: 7.10.1 Component: Compiler | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Keywords: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Architecture: | Blocked By: Unknown/Multiple | Related Tickets: 9858 Test Case: typeOf :: | Typeable (a::k) => Proxy a -> | TypeRep | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- With all the apparent exploitable bugs now fixed, #9858 seems to be settling down. Simon P.J. asked me to make a new ticket for some quibbles I still have with limitations of the new design. These started with some examples that I discussed there pre-implementation with Richard Eisenberg, and which he concluded could be supported by a "sufficently smart solver". In the new (current) design, a `TypeRep` ''does'' contain kind information, which as I understand it is a list of `KindRep`s for the explicit kind parameters applied to the type constructor after type inference. This is sufficient to prevent confusing the same type constructor used at different kinds, and also easily supports type application ''provided'' the `TypeRep`s of the parts are known. For this, the internal `Typeable` constraint solver only ever needs to combine `TypeRep`s, never decompose them. Since no one else complained in #9858, I assume this is enough for what people are currently using `Typeable` for. However: I think the current `TypeRep` representation for `Typeable (a :: k)` doesn't contain enough information to generally extract the `KindRep` for `k` itself, much less to decompose it, even if the internal `Typeable` solver were to try. This prevents some polykinded code that is intuitively sound, and which "worked" in the old system, although if only because it didn't try to track kinds at all. For example, the following expression, with `PolyKinds` enabled: {{{#!hs typeOf :: Typeable a => Proxy a -> TypeRep }}} In the old system, this worked simply by combining the `TypeRep` for `Proxy` with the `TypeRep` for `a`. But in the new system, it fails, because the `TypeRep` for `Proxy` needs to know the kind of `a`, which is neither statically known nor available from the `TypeRep` of `a`. You would need to have compile-time information about the type constructor of `a` to even know how to build the `KindRep` from the kind arguments. This problem with constructing `TypeRep`s would arise whenever a polykinded type constructor is applied to a type whose kind is not a known monomorphic one. The second similar one I can think of is {{{#!hs typeRep :: Typeable a => Proxy (Typeable a) -> TypeRep }}} In an ideal system, we can also find use cases that require not just extracting the `KindRep` for a type, but also decomposing it. Here is my very hypothetical kitchen sink example from [comment:46:ticket:9858] (this example was made up as a test case before I knew what the new solver would support): {{{#!hs {-# LANGUAGE PolyKinds #-} {-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-} {-# LANGUAGE KindSignatures #-} {-# LANGUAGE AutoDeriveTypeable #-} import Data.Typeable newtype C a b = C () step :: Proxy (a :: [k] -> *) -> Proxy (C a :: [k -> *] -> *) step Proxy = Proxy nest :: Typeable (a :: [k] -> *) => Int -> Proxy a -> TypeRep nest 0 x = typeRep x nest n x = nest (n-1) (step x) main = print $ nest 10 (Proxy :: Proxy (C () :: [()] -> *)) }}} Here, to make this compile, the solver would need to derive `Typeable (C a :: [k -> *] -> *]` from `Typeable (a :: [k] -> *)`, which at runtime requires first extracting the `KindRep` of `k` from the `TypeRep` of `a`, and then building the `TypeRep` for the correctly kinded `C`. At least the former part seems essentially impossible with the current `TypeRep` representation, even with a more clever solver. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10343> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9432: IncoherentInstances are too restricted
by GHC 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

#9432: IncoherentInstances are too restricted -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: danilo2 | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Component: Compiler (Type | Version: 7.8.2 checker) | Operating System: Keywords: | Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: Difficulty: Unknown | None/Unknown Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Hello! The reason behind using `IncoherentInstances`is that we want GHC to commit to a specific instance even if after instantiation of some variables, other instance could be more specific (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.4/html/users_guide/type-class- extensions.html). There is one problem though. Lets consider following example (which could not make much sense, but shows the problem well): {{{#!haskell {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-missing-methods #-} {-# LANGUAGE NoMonomorphismRestriction #-} {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-} {-# LANGUAGE PolyKinds #-} {-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-} {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} {-# LANGUAGE IncoherentInstances #-} {-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-} module Main where import Data.Typeable -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Type classes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- class InferType a where inferType :: Proxy a -> Proxy a inferType = undefined -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Proxy datatypes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- data Id0 = Id0 deriving (Show, Typeable) data Id1 t1 = Id1 deriving (Show, Typeable) data Id2 t1 t2 = Id2 deriving (Show, Typeable) data Id3 t1 t2 t3 = Id3 deriving (Show, Typeable) data Id4 t1 t2 t3 t4 = Id4 deriving (Show, Typeable) data Id5 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 = Id5 deriving (Show, Typeable) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Instances -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- instance InferType Int instance (InferType m, InferType a) => InferType (m a) instance (a~Id0) => InferType (a :: *) instance (a~Id1) => InferType (a :: * -> *) instance (a~Id2) => InferType (a :: * -> * -> *) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Tests -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- toProxy :: a -> Proxy a toProxy _ = Proxy --inferTypeBase :: a -> Proxy a inferTypeBase a = inferType $ toProxy a instance InferType Foo1 instance InferType Foo2 tm _ = 5 data Foo1 a = Foo1 a deriving (Show, Typeable) data Foo2 a b = Foo2 a b deriving (Show, Typeable) instance Monad Id1 -- dummy instances just for tests instance Num Id0 main = do print $ typeOf $ inferType $ toProxy $ (return (5)) print $ typeOf $ inferType $ toProxy $ (5) print $ typeOf $ inferType $ toProxy $ (Foo1 (return 5)) print $ typeOf $ inferType $ toProxy $ (Foo2 (return 5) (return 5)) print "hello" ---- OUTPUT: -- Proxy (Id1 Id0) -- Proxy Id0 -- Proxy (Foo1 (Id1 Id0)) -- Proxy (Foo2 (Id1 Id0) (Id1 Id0)) -- "hello" }}} The idea is very simple - replace all unknown type variables with known ones. It works great, but the problem appears with the function `inferTypeBase`. It should have type of `a -> Proxy a`, but GHC claims it has got `Id0 -> Proxy Id0`. It is of course caused by enabled `-XIncoherentInstances` flag, but I think GHC should be more liberal here. If it really cannot pick any instance (causing an error using only `OverlappingInstances`), the `IncoherentInstances` should allow it to pick matching one even if more specific could be available after instantianization. But If no error would occur while using `OverlappingInstances`, `IncoherentInstances` should not affect the way it resolves the instances. I think this would make `IncoherentInstances` much more useful than now. Maybe it would be good to just add some options to the flag? -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9432> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9562: Type families + hs-boot files = unsafeCoerce
by GHC 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

#9562: Type families + hs-boot files = unsafeCoerce -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: goldfire | 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: | accepts invalid program Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Consider the following bundle of modules: A.hs: {{{#!hs {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} module A where type family F a b }}} B.hs-boot: {{{#!hs module B where import A oops :: F a b -> a -> b }}} B.hs: {{{#!hs {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} module B where import A import C type instance F a b = b oops :: F a b -> a -> b oops = const }}} C.hs: {{{#!hs module C (oops) where import {-# SOURCE #-} B }}} D.hs: {{{#!hs {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} module D where import A import C type instance F a b = a unsafeCoerce :: a -> b unsafeCoerce x = oops x x }}} Main.hs: {{{#!hs module Main where import D ( unsafeCoerce ) main = print $ (unsafeCoerce True :: Int) }}} When loading these into GHCi, we quite reasonably get a type family instance overlap error. But, separate compilation leads to disaster: {{{ rae:01:49:47 ~/temp/bug> ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.8.3 rae:01:49:49 ~/temp/bug> ghc -c A.hs rae:01:49:53 ~/temp/bug> ghc -c B.hs-boot rae:01:49:58 ~/temp/bug> ghc -c C.hs rae:01:50:09 ~/temp/bug> ghc -c B.hs rae:01:50:13 ~/temp/bug> ghc -c D.hs rae:01:50:17 ~/temp/bug> ghc Main.hs -o Unsafe [6 of 6] Compiling Main ( Main.hs, Main.o ) Linking Unsafe ... rae:01:50:23 ~/temp/bug> ./Unsafe 2882303761534249061 }}} Yikes! Proposed (terrible) solution: hs-boot files '''must''' list all type instance declarations in the corresponding modules. It may also be a good idea to require all normal instance declarations in the hs-boot file as well, because this same trick can be used to introduce incoherence (I think -- haven't tested). This bug persists even if `Main` declares that it is `Safe`. I've attached a tarball of the files for ease of testing. (Credit to Edward Yang and Geoff Mainland, whose discussion provoked the line of inquiry that led to this discovery.) -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9562> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8405: experiment with using function-sections for linking (for smaller libs and executables)
by GHC 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

#8405: experiment with using function-sections for linking (for smaller libs and executables) ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: carter | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.1 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: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- currently the only support we have for making small (ish) executables using split objects, which 1. is not on by default, for various good reasons 2. can seriously penalize compile times 3. in tandem, something like strip is often used, but on some platforms/targets (such as the iOS cross compiler), strip will actually break things might be worth seriously experimenting with function-sections / gc- sections in the object files we generate. example slide deck on this http://elinux.org/images/2/2d/ELC2010-gc- sections_Denys_Vlasenko.pdf -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8405> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9821: DeriveAnyClass support for higher-kinded classes + some more comments
by GHC 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

#9821: DeriveAnyClass support for higher-kinded classes + some more comments -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: dreixel | Owner: dreixel Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.9 Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Unknown | Type of failure: Blocked By: | None/Unknown Related Tickets: #5462 | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- #5462 was merged before a few final fixes were done. This ticket serves to record that. Left to address are: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D476?id=1443#inline-3652 https://phabricator.haskell.org/D476?id=1443#inline-3648 https://phabricator.haskell.org/D476?id=1443#inline-3646 Also, `DeriveAnyClass` currently panics at higher-kinded classes (like `((* -> *) -> *) -> Constraint`). I'll fix this. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9821> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8155: Defaulting bug or unfortunate error message with closed type families
by GHC 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

#8155: Defaulting bug or unfortunate error message with closed type families ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: nh2 | 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: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- https://github.com/nh2/infinite-type-families/blob/master/Test2.hs Some code extracted from hmatrix: {{{ {-# LANGUAGE CPP #-} {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-} module Test where data Vector a = Vector a data Matrix a = Matrix a class Build f where build' :: BoundsOf f -> f -> ContainerOf f #if __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ <= 706 -- Normal type families with GHC 7.6, works well. type family BoundsOf x type instance BoundsOf (a->a) = Int type instance BoundsOf (a->a->a) = (Int,Int) type family ContainerOf x type instance ContainerOf (a->a) = Vector a type instance ContainerOf (a->a->a) = Matrix a #else -- Closed type families for GHC 7.8 type family BoundsOf x where BoundsOf (a->a->a) = (Int,Int) BoundsOf (a->a) = Int type family ContainerOf x where ContainerOf (a->a) = Vector a ContainerOf (a->a->a) = Matrix a #endif instance (Num a) => Build (a->a) where build' = buildV buildV :: (Integral a, Num b) => a -> (b -> c) -> Vector c buildV _ _ = undefined }}} This is probably related to #8154. With GHC 7.7, we get the following error: {{{ Test2.hs:59:14: Could not deduce (BoundsOf (a -> a) ~ Integer) from the context (Num a) bound by the instance declaration at Test2.hs:58:10-32 Expected type: BoundsOf (a -> a) -> (a -> a) -> ContainerOf (a -> a) Actual type: Integer -> (a -> a) -> Vector a Relevant bindings include build' :: BoundsOf (a -> a) -> (a -> a) -> ContainerOf (a -> a) (bound at Test2.hs:59:5) In the expression: buildV In an equation for ‛build'’: build' = buildV }}} 1) Where does this Integer come from? 2) Change {{{ BoundsOf (a->a) = Int }}} into {{{ BoundsOf (a->a) = Integer }}} You get the same error message, although clearly {{{BoundsOf (a -> a) ~ Integer}}} (you just wrote that down).[[BR]] Even if the order matters in closed type families, is this not the wrong error message? 3) If you flip the order so that the (a->a) case comes first, it works (with both it Int or Integer). I don't quite understand why. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8155> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #10052: Panic (something to do with floatExpr?)
by GHC 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

#10052: Panic (something to do with floatExpr?) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: edsko | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.1-rc2 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Test Case: | Related Tickets: Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Loading {{{ main = let (x :: String) = "hello" in putStrLn x }}} using a very simple driver for the GHC API (see T145.hs) causes a ghc panic: {{{ [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( T145-input.hs, interpreted ) T145: T145: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.10.0.20150128 for x86_64-apple-darwin): floatExpr tick <<details unavailable>> Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug }}} This panic is arising in our test case for #8333, so it may be related to that bug. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10052> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9351: add ability to version symbols .c for packages with C code
by GHC 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

#9351: add ability to version symbols .c for packages with C code -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: slyfox | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.3 Keywords: backpack | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Unknown | Type of failure: Blocked By: | None/Unknown Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Let's consider an example: We have a haskell package with some C code imported in haskell: {{{ // a.h file int get_something(void); // a.c file #include "a.h" int get_something(void) { return 42; } // M.hs file module M where foreign import ccall "a.h get_something" :: IO Int }}} The problem here is we can't mix that package with other packages having global 'get_something' symbol. Sometimes it happens when a package copies part of implementation from another package with .c bits under different haskell namespace. Haskell parts would coexist freely, but not C symbols. Would be great if ghc would export some unique package identifier in a way C code could attach it to all exported symbols making linking possible. Something like that: {{{ // a.h file #include "HsFFI.h" /* #define FOR_HASKELL(__sym) package_id_##__sym */ int FOR_HASKELL(get_something)(void); // a.c file #include "a.h" int FOR_HASKELL(get_something)(void) { return 42; } // M.hs file module M where foreign import ccall-for-haskell "a.h get_something" :: IO Int }}} That way we explicitly mark symbol as inaccessible to external plain C code. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9351> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8901: (very) bad inline heuristics
by GHC 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

#8901: (very) bad inline heuristics ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: heisenbug | 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: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I observe a bad case for inlining blowup for the time library. Observed for 7.7, just checked in 7.9. The problem is so bad that the PowerPC32 assembler cannot resolve cross- routine references. (I have no error message at hand, but could try to get one.) Instead here are the stats for x86, with inlining and certain inlining suppressed. The architecture seems irrelevant. {{{ $ file ./libraries/time/dist-install/build/Data/Time/Format.o ./libraries/time/dist-install/build/Data/Time/Format.o: Mach-O object i386 $ ls -l ./libraries/time/dist-install/build/Data/Time/Format.* -rw-r--r-- 1 ggreif staff 61875 Mar 15 16:48 ./libraries/time/dist- install/build/Data/Time/Format.dyn_hi -rw-r--r-- 1 ggreif staff 450864 Mar 15 16:48 ./libraries/time/dist- install/build/Data/Time/Format.dyn_o -rw-r--r-- 1 ggreif staff 61863 Mar 15 16:48 ./libraries/time/dist- install/build/Data/Time/Format.hi -rw-r--r-- 1 ggreif staff 332216 Mar 15 16:48 ./libraries/time/dist- install/build/Data/Time/Format.o }}} With following patch applied: <https://github.com/ggreif/packages- time/commit/83f08b8896b950707a910fed4e30bddb7ee7f52f> I get: {{{ $ ls -l ./libraries/time/dist-install/build/Data/Time/Format.* -rw-r--r-- 1 ggreif staff 10554 Mar 16 00:08 ./libraries/time/dist- install/build/Data/Time/Format.dyn_hi -rw-r--r-- 1 ggreif staff 106832 Mar 16 00:08 ./libraries/time/dist- install/build/Data/Time/Format.dyn_o -rw-r--r-- 1 ggreif staff 10542 Mar 16 00:08 ./libraries/time/dist- install/build/Data/Time/Format.hi -rw-r--r-- 1 ggreif staff 78864 Mar 16 00:08 ./libraries/time/dist- install/build/Data/Time/Format.o }}} The factor is 4.2 for Format.o, Format.dyn_o and 5.8 for the .hi files. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8901> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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