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[GHC] #14456: Windows runtime linker failure with icuuc
by GHC 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

#14456: Windows runtime linker failure with icuuc -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: RyanGlScott | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime | Version: 8.2.1 System (Linker) | Keywords: | Operating System: Windows Architecture: | Type of failure: GHCi crash Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- First, install `mingw-w64-x86_64-icu` (I'm using version 58.2-2): {{{ $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-icu }}} Now take this file: {{{#!hs module Main where import Data.Int import Foreign foreign import ccall "ucnv_getMaxCharSize_58" c_ucnv_getMaxCharSize :: Ptr () -> IO Int8 main :: IO () main = c_ucnv_getMaxCharSize nullPtr >>= print }}} GHC is able to compile this successfully: {{{ $ ghc -licuuc Bug2.hs [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Bug2.hs, Bug2.o ) Linking Bug2.exe ... }}} But GHCi is unable to accomplish the same thing: {{{ $ runghc -licuuc Bug2.hs ghc.exe: ^^ Could not load 'ucnv_getMaxCharSize_58', dependency unresolved. See top entry above. Bug2.hs: ByteCodeLink: can't find label During interactive linking, GHCi couldn't find the following symbol: ucnv_getMaxCharSize_58 This may be due to you not asking GHCi to load extra object files, archives or DLLs needed by your current session. Restart GHCi, specifying the missing library using the -L/path/to/object/dir and -lmissinglibname flags, or simply by naming the relevant files on the GHCi command line. Alternatively, this link failure might indicate a bug in GHCi. If you suspect the latter, please send a bug report to: glasgow-haskell-bugs(a)haskell.org }}} Phyx- and I discussed this briefly on IRC. He suspected that the fact that `C:\Windows\System32` now contains its own copy of `icuuc.dll` is contributing to the issue. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14456> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #14191: Implement Semigroup as a superclass of Monoid Proposal (Phase 2)
by GHC 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

#14191: Implement Semigroup as a superclass of Monoid Proposal (Phase 2) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: hvr | Owner: (none) Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.4.1 Component: | Version: 8.2.1 libraries/base | 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: | prime:Libraries/Proposals/SemigroupMonoid -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- More details in prime:Libraries/Proposals/SemigroupMonoid -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14191> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9285: IO manager startup procedure somewhat odd
by GHC 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

#9285: IO manager startup procedure somewhat odd ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: edsko | Owner: Type: bug | 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: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Currently the RTS startup procedure for the threaded runtime with a single capability looks something like this: '''1. Capability gets initialized''' {{{ hs_main real_main hs_init_ghc initScheduler initCapabilities }}} '''2. IO Manager is started''' {{{ hs_main real_main hs_init_ghc ioManagerStart }}} '''3. ensureIOManagerIsRunning''' The IO manager of course is mostly written in Haskell, so `ioManagerStart` does {{{ cap = rts_lock(); rts_evalIO(&cap,&base_GHCziConcziIO_ensureIOManagerIsRunning_closure,NULL); rts_unlock(cap); }}} '''4. Bound task is created and we start running Haskell code''' Since this is the first call to `rts_lock`, it creates a bound task to correspond to the current OS thread. '''5. Haskell code does a safe FFI call: create worker task 1''' The first safe FFI call that the IO manager makes (ignoring `labelThread`) is to `c_setIOManagerControlFd`. At this point, the bound task gets suspended and we create a worker task. '''6. Worker task 1 starts executing `GHC.Event.Manager.loop`''' The worker tasks gets suspended due to an explicit call to `yield` in `GHC.Event.Manager.step`, at which point the bound task continues execution. It continues and finishes (`ensureIOManagerRunning` completes). The worker task takes over. '''7. Worker task 1 does a safe FFI call to `I.poll`, create new worker task 2''' (This safe call is from `GHC.Event.Manager.step`) '''8. Worker task 2 executes `GHC.Event.TimerManager.loop`, and does safe FFI call to `I.poll`; create worker task 3''' This worker task will remain spare for now. '''9. Start executing the actual main function''' The IO manager calls `rts_unlock`, which verifies if there are any spare workers available; it finds that there are and doesn't start a new one. Then when we start `main` itself of course we go through this `rts_lock, rts_evalIO, rts_unlock` sequence ''again''. This is somewhat confusing, and makes tracing the startup of the code more difficult to interpret. It seems that this could be simpler: only a single `rts_lock` should be necessary, in which we first call `ensureIOManagerIsRunning` and then `main`, followed by a single `rts_unlock`. A similar simplification should be possible in `forkProcess`. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9285> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #13752: Odd pattern synonym type errors
by GHC 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

#13752: Odd pattern synonym type errors -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: dfeuer | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.4.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 8.2.1-rc2 (Type checker) | Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple PatternSynonyms | Architecture: | Type of failure: GHC rejects Unknown/Multiple | valid program Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Suppose we have {{{#!hs newtype Arrange = Arrange {getArrange :: [Int] -> [Int]} }}} If I write {{{#!hs pattern Heh :: (c ~ ((~) Int)) => (forall a. c a => [a] -> [a]) -> Arrange pattern Heh f <- Arrange f }}} I get {{{ • Couldn't match type ‘[Int] -> [Int]’ with ‘forall a. Int ~ a => [a] -> [a]’ Expected type: forall a. c a => [a] -> [a] Actual type: [Int] -> [Int] • In the declaration for pattern synonym ‘Heh’ }}} It surprises me that these don't match. I can hack around that a bit: {{{#!hs newtype Help = Help {getHelp :: forall a. Int ~ a => [a] -> [a]} pattern Heh :: (c ~ ((~) Int)) => (forall a. c a => [a] -> [a]) -> Arrange pattern Heh f <- ((\x -> Help (getArrange x)) -> Help f) }}} Now this compiles, and I can use it in a variety of ways, but not quite all. If I write {{{#!hs pattern Heh' :: ([Int] -> [Int]) -> Arrange pattern Heh' f <- Heh f }}} I get {{{ Haha.hs:78:23: error: • Couldn't match expected type ‘[Int] -> [Int]’ with actual type ‘forall a. Int ~ a => [a] -> [a]’ • In the declaration for pattern synonym ‘Heh'’ | 78 | pattern Heh' f <- Heh f | ^ }}} This strikes me as perhaps even more surprising. I can hack around that too, of course, but yuck! {{{#!hs pattern Heh' :: ([Int] -> [Int]) -> Arrange pattern Heh' f <- ((\(Heh g) -> g @ Int) -> f) }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13752> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #10634: Type class with bijective type functions
by GHC 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

#10634: Type class with bijective type functions -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Lemming | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.1 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: GHC rejects Unknown/Multiple | valid program Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- See the attached module. {{{ $ cat TypeFunctionBijection.hs {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} module TypeFunctionBijection where import Data.Int (Int8, Int16, Int32) type family Up a type instance Up Int8 = Int16 type instance Up Int16 = Int32 class (Up (Down a) ~ a) => Convert a where type Down a down :: a -> Down a instance Convert Int16 where type Down Int16 = Int8 down = fromIntegral instance Convert Int32 where type Down Int32 = Int16 down = fromIntegral x :: Int8 x = down 8 }}} {{{ $ ghci-7.8.4 -Wall TypeFunctionBijection.hs GHCi, version 7.8.4: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. [1 of 1] Compiling TypeFunctionBijection ( TypeFunctionBijection.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: TypeFunctionBijection. *TypeFunctionBijection> :q Leaving GHCi. }}} {{{ $ ghci-7.10.1 -Wall TypeFunctionBijection.hs GHCi, version 7.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help [1 of 1] Compiling TypeFunctionBijection ( TypeFunctionBijection.hs, interpreted ) TypeFunctionBijection.hs:24:5: Couldn't match expected type ‘Int8’ with actual type ‘Down a0’ The type variable ‘a0’ is ambiguous In the expression: down 8 In an equation for ‘x’: x = down 8 Failed, modules loaded: none. Prelude> :q Leaving GHCi. }}} Up to GHC-7.8.4 I could make a type function like `Down` a bijection by adding equality constraints to the `Convert` class. In GHC-7.10.1 this fails. Is this a bug or a feature? -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10634> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #13903: KQueue evtmgr backend fails to register for write events
by GHC 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

#13903: KQueue evtmgr backend fails to register for write events -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: waldheinz | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime | Version: 8.0.2 System | Keywords: | Operating System: FreeBSD Architecture: | Type of failure: Incorrect result Unknown/Multiple | at runtime Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- The root of the problem is that the `GHC.Event.KQueue.toFilter` function has type `GHC.Event.Internal.Event -> Filter` with GHC's `Event` being a bitmask which can represent read events, write events or a combination of those. It happens that the event manager requests it's backend to be notified about read ''and'' write events on some fd, and because the kqueue `EVFILT_*`s are ''not'' bitmasks, the above function cannot capture this, silently dropping the desire to be notified about write events. The following program triggers the problematic behaviour: {{{ import Control.Concurrent ( forkIO, killThread ) import Control.Exception ( finally ) import Control.Monad.Trans.Resource ( runResourceT ) import Control.Monad.IO.Class ( liftIO ) import qualified Data.ByteString as BS import Data.Conduit ( ($$), ($=) ) import qualified Data.Conduit.Binary as CB import qualified Data.Conduit.List as CL import qualified Data.Conduit.Network as CN import Data.IORef ( newIORef, modifyIORef', readIORef) main :: IO () main = CN.runTCPClient (CN.clientSettings 5555 "192.168.2.11") client where logMsg cnt = CL.mapM $ \bs -> liftIO $ do modifyIORef' cnt (+ 1) readIORef cnt >>= \x -> putStrLn $ "msg #" ++ show x ++ " of size: " ++ show (BS.length bs) return bs client ad = do reader <- forkIO (runResourceT $ CN.appSource ad $$ CL.mapM_ ( \bs -> (liftIO . putStrLn) $ "read " ++ show (BS.length bs) ++ " bytes")) cnt <- newIORef ( 0 :: Int ) let runPipe = runResourceT $ CB.sourceFile "cool-linux-distro.iso" $$ logMsg cnt $= CN.appSink ad runPipe `finally` (killThread reader) }}} Having a `nc -l -p 5555 > /dev/null` running on another machine is sufficient to sink the data. Assuming that we can read `bigfile.iso` faster than we can send out over the socket, the `send` syscall will at some point give an `EAGAIN` as can be seen in the `truss` output: {{{ write(1,"msg #20 of size: 32752\n",23) = 23 (0x17) sendto(12,"\f\2409\0\M^RA\^T\M-&A\M-'\M-d8"...,32752,0x0,NULL,0x0) = 32752 (0x7ff0) read(13,"\M^?\0'\\\M-B\M-:+\^]D\M-0\M-="...,32752) = 32752 (0x7ff0) poll({ 1/POLLOUT },1,0) = 1 (0x1) msg #21 of size: 32752 write(1,"msg #21 of size: 32752\n",23) = 23 (0x17) sendto(12,"\M^?\0'\\\M-B\M-:+\^]D\M-0\M-="...,32752,0x0,NULL,0x0) = 19204 (0x4b04) sendto(12,"\M-j$2\M^BH\M-#-\^A\M-E\^O\M^Y\a"...,13548,0x0,NULL,0x0) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily unavailable' SIGNAL 26 (SIGVTALRM) sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,{ SIGVTALRM },0x0) = 0 (0x0) sigreturn(0x7fffffff9c60) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily unavailable' kevent(3,{ 12,EVFILT_READ,EV_ADD|EV_ONESHOT,0x0,0x0,0x0 },1,0x0,0,{ 0.000000000 }) = 0 (0x0) _umtx_op(0x800c71ed0,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x0,0x0) ERR#4 'Interrupted system call' SIGNAL 26 (SIGVTALRM) sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,{ SIGVTALRM },0x0) = 0 (0x0) sigreturn(0x7fffffffdc00) ERR#4 'Interrupted system call' _umtx_op(0x800c71ed0,UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE,0x0,0x0,0x0) ERR#4 'Interrupted system call' SIGNAL 26 (SIGVTALRM) }}} Not the `sendto` call on fd 12 resulting in `ERR#35`, soon followed by an `kevent` call for that same fd and only `EVFILT_READ` set. This makes little sense as it was an attempt to ''write'' that just failed. This is caused by `toFilter` giving precedence to `read` events, dropping the write event. Not starting the `reader` thread prevents bad things from happening as then the `write` events are properly passed thru to kqueue. I have an initial version of a patch fixing this. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13903> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #13554: Allow the user to provide a C function that is called on each thread the RTS creates before running any Haskell code
by GHC 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

#13554: Allow the user to provide a C function that is called on each thread the RTS creates before running any Haskell code -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: dobenour | Owner: (none) Type: feature | Status: new request | Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.4.1 Component: Runtime | Version: 8.0.1 System | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Currently, it is very difficult to use the MySQL/MariaDB client library with Haskell. One must use bound threads, which comes at a performance penalty. The reason is that the underlying library requires a certain initialization function to be called on each OS thread before any other functions are called. Similarly, it is difficult to optimally use libcurl with GHC. The best- performing way to use libcurl is to have one multi handle per thread and to use `curl_multi_socket_action` to respond to events. This is currently not possible from Haskell, at least not easily. (There are other issues with using libcurl from Haskell; most notably libcurl’s event support makes heavy use of callbacks, which are slow, to tell the application which file descriptors to wait for. But that is a separate issue.) Setting milestone to 8.4.1 because I don’t think that this is difficult. This is a feature requ -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13554> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #14182: Allow full control over dyn lib names
by GHC 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

#14182: Allow full control over dyn lib names -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Package | Version: 8.2.1 system | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This is related to: * GHC ticket #11587 * Cabal issue https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/4263 * Cabal PR https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4656 * Cabal PR https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4426 Currently GHC hard codes the naming convention for shared/dynamic libraries. For example: For `hs-libraries: HScpu-0.1.2-b25995` in the package registration, on ELF GHC uses the name `libHScpu-0.1.2-b2599-ghc8.0.1.so` (and .dynlib on OSX). This naming convention is based on an old assumption that shared libraries would go in a shared `$libdir`, and that all that was needed to ensure uniqueness was the combination of the package id and ghc version. This assumption is very out of date now. Different install schemes are used by different packaging tools (nix style vs classic style) and sometimes we want shared lib dirs and sometimes not, and of course we all know now that a package id is not nearly enough to ensure file names are unique. The obvious solution is for GHC to stop making any unnecessary naming convention assumptions and allow specifying the full library name in the package registration information. We would of course keep the remaining necessary naming convention is the `lib` prefix and `.so`/`.dynlib`/`.dll` suffix, which is the same convention used by the system linker for `-lfoo` vs `libfoo.so`. **So specifically:** * Add a new `dynamic-hs-libraries` (to go along with `hs-libraries`) to the `ghc-pkg` registration information. This naming convention follows the existing `library-dirs` and `dynamic-library-dirs`. * When this field is used then these library names will by used for dynamic linking. For backward compatibility, when this field is not supplied then the existing `-ghc8.0.1` convention is used. While we are at it, we should do the same for the `extra-libraries` and add a `dynamic-extra-libraries`. Note that there is an existing `extra- ghci-libraries` which was added for a similar reason (though prior to ghci switching to dynamic libs by default) because in rare cases the dyn libs are just named differently from the static libs, or occasionally there are extra static vs dynamic libs. For example, `pkg-config` makes a clear distinction between static and dynamic libs (because dynamic libs only need direct deps whereas static needs the full transitive closure). -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14182> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #14378: Unreasonably high memory use when compiling with profiling and -O2/-O2
by GHC 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

#14378: Unreasonably high memory use when compiling with profiling and -O2/-O2 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: AndreasK | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.2.1 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: Compile-time Unknown/Multiple | performance bug Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Based on [https://github.com/Daniel-Diaz/matrix/issues/43] I tried that myself. * Without profiling: <10 sec, <110M Residency * Profiling and -O: 90sec, 1.5GB Residency * Profiling and -O2: Killed it after 4 Minutes and it started swapping on a 16GB Ram machine. The invocation was: ghc Matrix.hs -prof -fprof-auto -c -fforce-recomp -O -v -fprof-auto-exported -caf-all -auto-all -fstatic-argument- transformation Numbers above from 8.0.2. 8.2.1 improved to slightly worse than -O1 with ~95 sec and ~2.5GB ram usage. Still seems like a bug though. I haven't tried HEAD yet. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14378> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #14042: Data type with type family in return kind spuriously rejected
by GHC 07 Jan '18

07 Jan '18

#14042: Data type with type family in return kind spuriously rejected -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: RyanGlScott | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 (Type checker) | Keywords: TypeInType, | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple TypeFamilies | Architecture: | Type of failure: GHC rejects Unknown/Multiple | valid program Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This typechecks: {{{#!hs {-# LANGUAGE TypeInType #-} import Data.Kind type Id (a :: Type) = a data Foo :: Id Type }}} But changing the type synonym to a type family causes it to fail: {{{#!hs {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} {-# LANGUAGE TypeInType #-} import Data.Kind type family Id (a :: Type) :: Type where Id a = a data Foo :: Id Type }}} {{{ $ ghci Foo.hs GHCi, version 8.2.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/rgscott/.ghci [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Foo.hs, interpreted ) Foo.hs:9:1: error: • Kind signature on data type declaration has non-* return kind Id * • In the data declaration for ‘Foo’ | 9 | data Foo :: Id Type | ^^^^^^^^ }}} That error message is wrong, since `Id * = *`. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14042> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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