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[GHC] #11006: Warning: Glomming in Main
by GHC 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

#11006: Warning: Glomming in Main -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ezyang | Owner: simonpj Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.11 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 Travis build bot is reporting a test failure with debugging on, relating to glomming: {{{ Actual stderr output differs from expected: --- /dev/null 2015-01-28 16:31:58.000000000 +0000 +++ ./lib/integer/integerConstantFolding.run.stderr.normalised 2015-10-22 20:31:03.287376925 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +WARNING: file compiler/simplCore/OccurAnal.hs, line 66 + Glomming in Main: [s3k0 :->, s3kc :->, s3kq :->, s3kr :->] \ No newline at end of file *** unexpected failure for integerConstantFolding(normal) }}} Full log https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis- ci.org/jobs/86899099/log.txt -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11006> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #11076: Demand information of foreign calls is wrong
by GHC 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

#11076: Demand information of foreign calls is wrong -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: luite | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Foreign calls of all types (including prim calls) use `mkFCallId` to create a fresh `Id` for each one. This Id claims to be strict in all arguments, which is not correct for foreign calls that allow lifted types to be passed. This also causes some trouble for GHCJS. I hope to get a fix in 7.10.3. Can we leave the strictness sig out entirely perhaps? Most arguments would be trivially strict since they're unboxed. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11076> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #10830: maximumBy has a space leak
by GHC 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

#10830: maximumBy has a space leak -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: NeilMitchell | Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: | Version: 7.10.2 libraries/base | Keywords: | Operating System: Windows Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Given the program: {{{#!hs import Data.List main = print $ maximumBy compare [1..10000] }}} Compiling with {{{-O2}}}, on GHC 7.8.3 this runs in constant stack space (works fine with {{{+RTS -K1K}}}). With GHC 7.10.2 I get: {{{ $ ghc --make Test.hs -O2 -rtsopts [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Test.hs, Test.o ) Linking Test.exe ... $ Test +RTS -K100K Stack space overflow: current size 33680 bytes. Use `+RTS -Ksize -RTS' to increase it. }}} Not sure why it's failing at 33K instead of 100K, but it's certainly taking more than 1K as GHC 7.8.3 did. See #3416 for previous discussion of this issue. My guess is that in older versions of GHC the strictness analysis managed to kick in and optimise things. With the burnt bridges that no longer works. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10830> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #11421: adding a PartialTypeSignatures to a binding affected by MonoLocalBinds leads compile-time failure
by GHC 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

#11421: adding a PartialTypeSignatures to a binding affected by MonoLocalBinds leads compile-time failure -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: aavogt | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- See attached file. I think both type signatures for xs should work. The ghci error unfortunately doesn't show up on :reload, but it shows up when trying to run an unrelated function (main here). -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11421> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #12441: Conflicting definitions error does not print explicit quantifiers when necessary
by GHC 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

#12441: Conflicting definitions error does not print explicit quantifiers when necessary -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ezyang | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 (Type checker) | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- {{{ -- Y.hs-boot {-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-} module Y where f :: forall a b. (a, b) -- YY.hs module YY where import {-# SOURCE #-} Y -- Y.hs {-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-} module Y where import YY f :: forall b a. (a, b) f = undefined }}} I get the following unhelpful error: {{{ ezyang@sabre:~$ ghc-8.0 --make Y.hs -fforce-recomp [1 of 3] Compiling Y[boot] ( Y.hs-boot, Y.o-boot ) [2 of 3] Compiling YY ( YY.hs, YY.o ) [3 of 3] Compiling Y ( Y.hs, Y.o ) Y.hs-boot:3:1: error: Identifier ‘f’ has conflicting definitions in the module and its hs-boot file Main module: f :: (a, b) Boot file: f :: (a, b) The two types are different }}} Yes this example is purposely shooting itself in the foot, but in the wild I encountered an un-annotated type which inferred a different quantifier ordering than what I expected, and I subsequently spent a while puzzling over the error message. `-fprint-explicit-foralls` is a sufficient workaround. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12441> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #12429: Pattern synonym parse error should recommend enabling extension
by GHC 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

#12429: Pattern synonym parse error should recommend enabling extension -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: agibiansky | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.3 Keywords: pattern | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple synonym error messages | Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Currently, if you try to use pattern synonyms in a module without -XPatternSynonyms, you can get a very uninformative parse error. For example: {{{#!hs module X where import Data.Text (pattern Y) x = 3 }}} Yields, when compiled on GHC 7.10, {{{ test.hs:3:27: parse error on input "Y" }}} It would be helpful if in addition to the error, the message suggested to the user to enable the PatternSynonyms extension, as many other error messages already do. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12429> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #11179: Allow plugins to access "dead code"
by GHC 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

#11179: Allow plugins to access "dead code" -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: lerkok | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- GHC removes dead-bindings quite early in the compilation process, which makes perfect sense from a pure compilation point of view. But with user- plugins, some of the dead-bindings can be interesting: They might be properties or other code that instructs the plugin to do a certain action, even if the binding isn't otherwise used anywhere else or exported. (Think of embedded properties.) Here's a discussion about the issue, where SimonPJ asked for a ticket to be filed: [http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc- devs/2015-December/010708.html] It appears the desugarer removes some of the dead-code. One option could be to stop the desugarer from doing that, and leaving it to the later optimizer passes so plugins can still see all the bindings (if they run early enough), or require the user to put in an "KeepAlive" pragma on bindings that she cares about. While keeping all-dead code in the desugarer would be the simplest thing to do, requiring the user to put in a pragma isn't a terrible solution either. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11179> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9729: GHCi accepts invalid programs when recompiling
by GHC 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

#9729: GHCi accepts invalid programs when recompiling -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: crockeea | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: GHCi | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Here's what's happening: Module A imports module B. Module B contains a function with constraints that are '''required''' to compile module B. If I load module A in GHCi, I can remove some (required) constraints on the function in module B and GHCi will successfully reload module B. My example uses the [https://hackage.haskell.org/package/syntactic syntactic] library. I attempted to recreate the situation I just described without syntactic, but I was unsuccessful. Module A.hs: {{{ #!haskell module A where import B import Data.Syntactic.Sugar.BindingT () main = print "hello" }}} Module B.hs: {{{ #!haskell {-# LANGUAGE GADTs, TypeOperators, FlexibleContexts #-} module B where import Data.Syntactic data Let x where Let :: Let (a :-> (a -> b) :-> Full b) share :: (Let :<: sup, sup ~ Domain b, sup ~ Domain a, Internal (a -> b) ~ (Internal a -> Internal b), -- remove me Syntactic a, Syntactic b, Syntactic (a -> b), SyntacticN (a -> (a -> b) -> b) (ASTF sup (Internal a) -> ASTF sup (Internal (a -> b)) -> ASTF sup (Internal b))) => a -> (a -> b) -> b share = sugarSym Let }}} Here's a terminal transcript: {{{ $ ghci A [1 of 2] Compiling B ( testsuite/B.hs, interpreted ) [2 of 2] Compiling A ( testsuite/A.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: A, B. > (Now remove the constraint from B and save. This *should* break module B) > :r [1 of 2] Compiling B ( testsuite/B.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: A, B. > :q $ ghci B [1 of 2] Compiling B ( testsuite/B.hs, interpreted ) testsuite/B.hs:21:9: Could not deduce (Internal (a -> b) ~ (Internal a -> Internal b)) }}} If I had to guess what's going on, it's that GHCi is remembering the instance that A imports from BindingT: {{{ instance (...) => Syntactic (a -> b) where type Internal (a -> b) = Internal a -> Internal b }}} This instance implies the constraint that module B needs, however it should never be visible to module B. GHCi seems to be ignoring that and using the instance to recompile module B. When compiling from scratch, module B is compiled first, so of course the instance (and therefore the constraint) are not visible. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9729> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #10749: Boot file instances should imply superclasses
by GHC 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

#10749: Boot file instances should imply superclasses -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ezyang | Owner: ezyang Type: bug | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.11 Keywords: backpack | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Currently, if I write the following program: {{{ -- A.hs-boot module A where data T instance Ord T -- B.hs module B where import {-# SOURCE #-} A f :: T -> T -> Bool f x y = x == y }}} I get: {{{ B.hs:4:11: No instance for (Eq T) arising from a use of `==' Possible fix: add an instance declaration for (Eq T) In the expression: x == y In an equation for `f': f x y = x == y }}} This is a bit confusing, because Ord instances are supposed to imply Eq instances. GHC should either: 1. Reject A.hs-boot (claiming that it could not find evidence that T had an Eq instance), or 2. Accept B.hs, since the instance requirement for Ord should imply Eq. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10749> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9131: Experiment with a dedicated solver for Coercible
by GHC 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

#9131: Experiment with a dedicated solver for Coercible ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: nomeata | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: low | 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: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This is something that I might want to do some time; it should not distract us from working and improving the current design and implementation. But I think it should be explored. Currently `Coercible` appears as a type class, we have instances to explain it, and use the existing solver to solve them. The last part sometimes causes problems: * the order the instances are tried matters, there might be dead ends (#9117) * recursive newtypes are not handled as good as they could be. It would be worth exploring if a dedicated solver for `Coercible` constraints could solve these issues. It could replace the existing `getCoercibleInst`. Given a constraint `Coercible s t` it would solve it completely, do nothing or (and this is not planned out yet) return some sufficient and in some sense primitive constraint that should appear in inferred type signatures etc. Ideally we could still explain `Coercible` in terms of the instances written in the ICFP’14 paper, and simply state „GHC will find a solution using these instances, if there are any.“ instead of „The usual solver is employed, it might run into dead ends (or not, hard to tell).“ When tackling this task, I should do something that I keep postponing (because I don’t like to admit my lack of knowlege about that) but I think is really important: What are the theoretical properties of solving `Coercible` constraints? Is it even decidable? Semi decidable? Are there existing standard algorithms? How does this relate to SMT solving? And why don’t I know these things... -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9131> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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