November 2017 - ghc-tickets

[GHC] #10700: include/stg/Prim.h isn't C++ compatible
by GHC 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

#10700: include/stg/Prim.h isn't C++ compatible -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Fabian | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Build | Version: 7.10.1 System | Keywords: FFI | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: Other Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- StgWord hs_cmpxchg8(volatile StgWord8 *x, StgWord old, StgWord new); and a few other declarations in Prim.h causes problems as they use ''new'' as a variable name. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10700> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #10833: Use injective type families when dealing with givens
by GHC 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

#10833: Use injective type families when dealing with givens -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: jstolarek | Owner: jstolarek Type: feature | Status: new request | Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.2 (Type checker) | Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: #6018 Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Consider this code: {{{#!hs type family Id a = r | r -> a id :: (Id a ~ Id b) => a -> b id x = x }}} GHC currently rejects it because it does not use type family injectivity information when dealing with the given constraints. Implementing this requires changing Core. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10833> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #12420: Users guide link for hsc2hs has bitrotten
by GHC 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

#12420: Users guide link for hsc2hs has bitrotten -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ezyang | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: hsc2hs | Version: 8.0.1 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hsc2hs links to http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/hsc2hs.html which is dead. I think https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/utils.html #writing-haskell-interfaces-to-c-code-hsc2hs is what is desired. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12420> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #14025: Object file is put in wrong directory when any source has absolute path
by GHC 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

#14025: Object file is put in wrong directory when any source has absolute path -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: literon | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Files: `/tmp/e/A.hs`, `/tmp/e/dep.c`. Current dir: `/tmp/e`. `ghc -odir /tmp/xyzzy A.hs dep.c`: works as expected, puts `dep.o` in `/tmp/xyzzy`. But try to prefix either `A.hs` or `dep.c` (or both) with `/tmp/e/`, and suddenly `dep.o` is put in `/tmp/e`, not in `/tmp/xyzzy`. Couldn't check with 8.2.1 yet. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14025> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #11197: Overeager deferred type errors
by GHC 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

#11197: Overeager deferred type errors -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: goldfire | Owner: goldfire Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.0.1 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- With `TypeInType`, the solver now works in terms of unlifted equality. The only place this matters is in deferred type errors, which now are more eager than they were before. For example: {{{ {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fdefer-type-errors #-} module Main where main = do putStrLn "Hi there." putStrLn True }}} This used to print {{{ Hi there. Defer: Defer.hs:7:12: error: ... }}} Now it prints {{{ Defer: Defer.hs:7:12: error: ... }}} No more `Hi there.`. Thinking about Core, this change should be expected. GHC puts all evidence bindings for `main` at the top, and with unlifted equality in the solver, these bindings now contain `case typeError ... of ...`, which forces the type error eagerly. Previously, there was a lazy binding for a lifted equality witness, unpacked only at the last moment by magic in the desugarer, thus the lazier warning. Simon has proposed customizing the !FloatIn pass to deal with this scenario. I do believe this would work nicely, but I have not yet implemented it. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11197> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #12833: GHCi
by GHC 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

#12833: GHCi -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Iceland_jack | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- In multiline mode you can define a multi-line Haskell function: {{{ Prelude> :set +m Prelude> let Prelude| f :: Int -> Int Prelude| f 0 = 0 Prelude| f n = n - 1 Prelude| Prelude> }}} Is there a reason why it couldn't work with other things like {{{ Prelude> :set -XPatternSynonyms Prelude> let Prelude| pattern A = 'A' Prelude| <interactive>:27:1: error: Illegal pattern synonym declaration for ‘A’ Pattern synonym declarations are only valid at top level }}} {{{ Prelude> let Prelude| data A Prelude| = B Prelude| | C Int Prelude| <interactive>:30:1: error: parse error (possibly incorrect indentation or mismatched brackets) }}} {{{ Prelude> let Prelude| type A = Int Prelude| <interactive>:48:1: error: parse error (possibly incorrect indentation or mismatched brackets) }}} couldn't work, similar to how they work with `:{` and `:}`: {{{ Prelude> :{ Prelude| data A Prelude| = B Prelude| | C Int Prelude| :} Prelude> }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12833> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #13965: COMPLETE sets nerf redundant pattern-match warnings
by GHC 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

#13965: COMPLETE sets nerf redundant pattern-match warnings -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: RyanGlScott | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.2.1-rc2 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple PatternSynonyms, | PatternMatchWarnings | Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- If I give redundant patterns for a datatype with a `COMPLETE` set, then GHC doesn't warn me at all. Here's an example: {{{#!hs {-# LANGUAGE PatternSynonyms #-} {-# LANGUAGE ViewPatterns #-} module Bug (Boolean(F, TooGoodToBeTrue), catchAll) where data Boolean = F | T deriving Eq pattern TooGoodToBeTrue :: Boolean pattern TooGoodToBeTrue <- ((== T) -> True) where TooGoodToBeTrue = T {-# COMPLETE F, TooGoodToBeTrue #-} catchAll :: Boolean -> Int catchAll F = 0 catchAll TooGoodToBeTrue = 1 catchAll F = 2 }}} GHC thinks this is fine and dandy: {{{ $ /opt/ghc/8.2.1/bin/ghci Bug.hs -Wall GHCi, version 8.2.0.20170704: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/rgscott/.ghci [1 of 1] Compiling Bug ( Bug.hs, interpreted ) Ok, 1 module loaded. }}} This problem also persists across modules: {{{#!hs module Foo where import Bug catchAll2 :: Boolean -> Int catchAll2 F = 0 catchAll2 TooGoodToBeTrue = 1 catchAll2 F = 2 }}} {{{ $ /opt/ghc/8.2.1/bin/ghci Foo.hs -Wall GHCi, version 8.2.0.20170704: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/rgscott/.ghci [1 of 2] Compiling Bug ( Bug.hs, interpreted ) [2 of 2] Compiling Foo ( Foo.hs, interpreted ) }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13965> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #12578: Update links to SPJ’s papers
by GHC 09 Sep '18

09 Sep '18

#12578: Update links to SPJ’s papers -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: nomeata | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: Documentation | Version: 8.1 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- It seems that Simon’s homepage got restructured, and a lot of links in the documentation and the code comments are not valid any more. At least these need to be looked at: {{{ $ git grep 'people/simonpj' compiler/types/FamInstEnv.hs:http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/simonpj/papers/ext-f/axioms-extended.pdf compiler/types/Unify.hs:[1]: http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/simonpj/papers/ext-f/axioms-extended.pdf docs/core-spec/core-spec.mng:phantom equality includes all types. See \url{http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Roles} and \url{http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/simonpj/papers/ext-f/coercible.pdf} docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst:paper <http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/simonpj/papers/ext-f/>`__. docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst:cloud <http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/remote.pdf>`__, docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst: multiprocessor <http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/>`__. docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst: (ICFP'96) <http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/simonpj/papers/float.ps.gz>`__. docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst: (ICFP'96) <http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/simonpj/papers/float.ps.gz>`__. docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst: programs <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/spec- constr/index.htm>`__. docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst: thesis <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/santos- thesis.ps.gz>`__ docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst: analyser <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/simple- strictnes-analyser.ps.gz>`__, libraries/base/GHC/Arr.hs:-- http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/simonpj/papers/ext-f/coercible.pdf libraries/base/GHC/Base.hs:-- http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/simonpj/papers/ext-f/coercible.pdf testsuite/tests/dependent/should_compile/all.T:# http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/haskell- dynamic/ $ git grep '~simonpj' compiler/coreSyn/CoreSyn.hs:-- GHC uses System FC <http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/ext-f/> for this purpose, docs/users_guide/bugs.rst: inliner <http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/inlining/>`__. docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst: Languages <http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/slpj-book-1987/>`__. docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst:"group by" <http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/list-comp>`__, docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst:space <http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/type-class-design- space/>`__ docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst:papers <http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/constraints/index.htm>`__ docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst:Haskell <http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/meta-haskell/>`__" docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.rst:2 <http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/meta-haskell/notes2.ps>`__. libraries/base/Control/Concurrent/MVar.hs:-- <http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/concurrent-haskell.ps.gz "Concurrent Haskell"> libraries/base/GHC/Conc/Sync.hs:(<http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers /asynch-exns.htm>). }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12578> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #14330: Sparks are not started promptly
by GHC 08 Sep '18

08 Sep '18

#14330: Sparks are not started promptly -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: andrewthad | Owner: (none) Type: feature | Status: new request | Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.2.1 Keywords: sparks | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This was a question on StackOverflow. With some prompting from Yuras, I've decided to open this as an issue. Here is the original question (which has been satisfactorily answered): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46586941/why-are-ghc-sparks- fizzling/46603680?noredirect=1#comment80163830_46603680 Here is a more narrowly tailored version of the code I have posted there: {{{#!hs {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} {-# OPTIONS_GHC -O2 -Wall -threaded -fforce-recomp #-} import Criterion.Main import Control.Parallel.Strategies (runEval,rpar,rseq) import qualified Data.Vector.Primitive as PV main :: IO () main = do let fewNumbers = PV.replicate 10000000 1.00000001 manyNumbers = PV.replicate 100000000 1.00000001 defaultMain [ bgroup "serial" [ bench "few" $ whnf serialProduct fewNumbers , bench "many" $ whnf serialProduct manyNumbers ] , bgroup "parallel" [ bench "few" $ whnf parallelProduct fewNumbers , bench "many" $ whnf parallelProduct manyNumbers ] ] serialProduct :: PV.Vector Double -> Double serialProduct v = let !len = PV.length v go :: Double -> Int -> Double go !d !ix = if ix < len then go (d * PV.unsafeIndex v ix) (ix + 1) else d in go 1.0 0 -- | This only works when the vector length is a multiple of 4. parallelProduct :: PV.Vector Double -> Double parallelProduct v = runEval $ do let chunk = div (PV.length v) 4 p2 <- rpar (serialProduct (PV.slice (chunk * 1) chunk v)) p3 <- rpar (serialProduct (PV.slice (chunk * 2) chunk v)) p4 <- rpar (serialProduct (PV.slice (chunk * 3) chunk v)) p1 <- rseq (serialProduct (PV.slice (chunk * 0) chunk v)) rseq (p1 * p2 * p3 * p4) }}} We can build and run this with: {{{ > ghc -threaded parallel_compute.hs > ./parallel_compute +RTS -N6 }}} On my eight-core laptop, here are the results we get: {{{ benchmarking serial/few time 11.46 ms (11.29 ms .. 11.61 ms) 0.999 R² (0.998 R² .. 1.000 R²) mean 11.52 ms (11.44 ms .. 11.62 ms) std dev 222.8 μs (140.9 μs .. 299.6 μs) benchmarking serial/many time 118.1 ms (116.1 ms .. 120.0 ms) 1.000 R² (1.000 R² .. 1.000 R²) mean 117.2 ms (116.6 ms .. 117.9 ms) std dev 920.3 μs (550.5 μs .. 1.360 ms) variance introduced by outliers: 11% (moderately inflated) benchmarking parallel/few time 10.04 ms (9.968 ms .. 10.14 ms) 0.999 R² (0.999 R² .. 1.000 R²) mean 9.970 ms (9.891 ms .. 10.03 ms) std dev 172.9 μs (114.5 μs .. 282.9 μs) benchmarking parallel/many time 45.32 ms (43.55 ms .. 47.17 ms) 0.996 R² (0.993 R² .. 0.999 R²) mean 45.93 ms (44.71 ms .. 48.10 ms) std dev 3.041 ms (1.611 ms .. 4.654 ms) variance introduced by outliers: 20% (moderately inflated) }}} Interestingly, in the benchmark with the smaller 10,000,000 element vector, we see almost no performance improvement from the sparks. But, in the one with the larger 100,000,000 element vector, we see a considerable speedup. It runs 2.5-3.0x faster. The reason for this is that sparks are not started between scheduling intervals. By default, this happens every 20ms. We can see the fizzling like this: {{{ > ./parallel_compute 'parallel/few' +RTS -N6 -s benchmarking parallel/few ... SPARKS: 1536 (613 converted, 0 overflowed, 0 dud, 42 GC'd, 881 fizzled) ... > ./parallel_compute 'parallel/many' +RTS -N6 -s benchmarking parallel/many ... SPARKS: 411 (411 converted, 0 overflowed, 0 dud, 0 GC'd, 0 fizzled) ... }}} For application developers, it's possible to work around this by tweaking the scheduling interval: {{{ > ghc -threaded -rtsopts parallel_compute.hs > ./parallel_compute 'parallel/few' +RTS -N6 -s -C0.001 benchmarking parallel/few time 4.158 ms (4.013 ms .. 4.302 ms) 0.993 R² (0.987 R² .. 0.998 R²) mean 4.094 ms (4.054 ms .. 4.164 ms) std dev 178.5 μs (131.5 μs .. 243.7 μs) variance introduced by outliers: 24% (moderately inflated) ... SPARKS: 3687 (3687 converted, 0 overflowed, 0 dud, 0 GC'd, 0 fizzled) }}} Much better. But, there are two problems with this: 1. This may negatively impact the overall performance of an application. 2. It doesn't work at all for library developers. It isn't practical to tell end users of your to use certain runtime flags. I don't know enough about the RTS to suggest a way to improve this. However, intuitively, I would expect that if I spark something and there's an idle capability, the idle capability could immediately be given the spark instead of having it placed in the local queue. This may not be possible or may not be compatible with the minimal use of locks in the implementation of sparks though. Here is a comment I made in the StackOverflow thread: > I suppose that in the normal case, if you're going to be sparking things, you should ensure that the work done by all the sparks plus the main thread takes well over 20ms. Otherwise, nearly everything will fizzle unless scheduling happens to be coming soon. I've always wondered about the threshold for how fine-grained sparks should be, and my understanding is now that this is roughly it. In short, I'd like for it to be possible to realize some of the benefits of parallelism for computations that take under 20ms without resorting to `forkIO` and `MVar`. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14330> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #10827: GHCi should support interpeting multiple packages/units with separate DynFlags
by GHC 08 Sep '18

08 Sep '18

#10827: GHCi should support interpeting multiple packages/units with separate DynFlags -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ezyang | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: GHC API | 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: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Stack and other tools are attempting to make the user-experience of developing multiple packages simultaneously better. Thus, if you have source packages p, q and r (which all depend on them), `stack build` builds all of them. They are quite interested in support `stack ghci` but there are problems: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/665 The essence of the problem is twofold: 1. If you ask GHCi to interpret modules from multiple packages (e.g. by having multiple source directories), GHCi currently only knows how to put all of them into the same home package. This will fail if two packages have a module with the same name; also, modules in the other packages will always see modules (even if they're supposed to be hidden). 2. A GHCi session only has one global set of dynamic flags, but each package may be compiled with its own set of DynFlags (e.g. package global LANGUAGE pragmas). This means the "default DynFlags" needs to be varied between packages. It's not too obvious to me how to fix (1) (at least, you'd have to make the HPT support sets of HomeModInfos from multiple packages), but (2) seems tractable: since we already track DynFlags on a per-module basis, we just have to arrange for a "package" level DynFlag to be applied to the correct ModSummarys. Similar functionality would be useful for Backpack. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10827> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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