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[GHC] #12694: GHC HEAD no longer reports inaccessible code
by GHC 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

#12694: GHC HEAD no longer reports inaccessible code -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ezyang | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.1 (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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Given this A.hs: {{{ {-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-} module A where f :: Bool ~ Int => a -> b f x = x }}} I get: {{{ ezyang@sabre:~$ ghc-head --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.1.20161010 ezyang@sabre:~$ ghc-head --make A.hs [1 of 1] Compiling A ( A.hs, A.o ) A.hs:4:1: warning: [-Woverlapping-patterns] Pattern match is redundant In an equation for ‘f’: f x = ... }}} In contrast: {{{ ezyang@sabre:~$ ghc-8.0 --make A.hs [1 of 1] Compiling A ( A.hs, A.o ) A.hs:3:6: error: • Couldn't match type ‘Bool’ with ‘Int’ Inaccessible code in the type signature for: f :: Bool ~ Int => a -> b • In the ambiguity check for ‘f’ To defer the ambiguity check to use sites, enable AllowAmbiguousTypes In the type signature: f :: Bool ~ Int => a -> b }}} Is this expected? I'd expect at least a warning! -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12694> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #13116: Allow Overloaded things in patterns
by GHC 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

#13116: Allow Overloaded things in patterns -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: facundo.dominguez | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This ticket is motivated by the use of `OverloadedLabels` of the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/choice-0.2.0 choice package]. One can use a type `Choice "block"` with values `Do #block` and `Don't #block` by using `OverloadedLabels`. However, in patterns this syntax is forbidden. {{{ case block of Do #block -> ... Don't #block -> ... }}} It would be nice if overloaded labels desugared to something sensible in patterns, perhaps {{{ case block of Do ((==) (fromLabel (proxy# :: Proxy# "foo")) -> True) -> ... Don't ((==) (fromLabel (proxy# :: Proxy# "foo")) -> True) -> ... }}} `OverloadedLists` and `OverloadedStrings` could benefit from a similar solution. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13116> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #12736: Calling a complex Haskell function (obtained via FFI wrapper function) from MSVC 64-bit C code (passed in as FunPtr) can leave SSE2 registers in the XMM6-XMM15 range modified
by GHC 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

#12736: Calling a complex Haskell function (obtained via FFI wrapper function) from MSVC 64-bit C code (passed in as FunPtr) can leave SSE2 registers in the XMM6-XMM15 range modified -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bavism | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.3 (FFI) | Keywords: | Operating System: Windows ffi,registers,sse2,clobber,xmm | Architecture: x86_64 | Type of failure: Incorrect result (amd64) | at runtime Test Case: | Blocked By: https://github.com/bavis-m/raycast | Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- According to the [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9z1stfyw.aspx MSDN], in the Microsoft x64 architecture function calls must preserve the SSE2 registers in the range XMM6-XMM15. The Haskell FFI can produce a function pointer via dynamic wrapper that, when called from MSVC x64 C code, does not preserve these registers, causing further floating-point operations in the C code to fail. I can reproduce this error in [https://github.com/bavis-m/raycast this project], which is a DOOM-style raycasting engine written in Haskell, that imports a C DLL with glue for rendering and window management. The Haskell executable generates a FunPtr to a frame update function using the dynamic import mechanism, and passes this to a long-lived C function that runs the update loop. Any time this update function is called from the C loop, subsequent floating point operations produce incorrect results (in this case, the next operations compute a view matrix for the OpenGL window). The output on every frame showing the view matrix should be: {{{ viewM: 0.003125 0.000000 0.000000 -1.000000 0.000000 0.004167 0.000000 -1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 }}} Running the raycaster with the Release version of the DLL causes the value of this matrix to be corrupted. There is a patch provided (stub.patch in the root folder) that turns the Haskell update function into an empty stub. This causes the program to work. When stepping through the assembly code with this patch applied, I can see in the function prologue where the XMM registers are saved. Without the patch, these registers are not saved. Running the Debug version does not show this error; the register allocation must be different. I have been attempting to create a much simpler test case to reveal this code-generation issue, however it has been difficult. Even seemingly trivial changes can cause the bug to not show up, it is clearly dependent on the register allocation used internally to produce the assembly code. Instructions for building the project are in the readme. (You will need the Haskell Stack Tool, and Visual Studio 15). -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12736> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8128: Standalone deriving fails for GADTs due to inaccessible code
by GHC 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

#8128: Standalone deriving fails for GADTs due to inaccessible code -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: adamgundry | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler (Type | Version: 7.7 checker) | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Keywords: | Type of failure: GHC rejects Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | valid program Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Consider the following: {{{ {-# LANGUAGE StandaloneDeriving, GADTs, FlexibleInstances #-} module StandaloneDerivingGADT where data T a where MkT1 :: T Int MkT2 :: (Bool -> Bool) -> T Bool deriving instance Show (T Int) }}} This gives the error: {{{ StandaloneDerivingGADT.hs:9:1: Couldn't match type ‛Int’ with ‛Bool’ Inaccessible code in a pattern with constructor MkT2 :: (Bool -> Bool) -> T Bool, in an equation for ‛showsPrec’ In the pattern: MkT2 b1 In an equation for ‛showsPrec’: showsPrec a (MkT2 b1) = showParen ((a >= 11)) ((.) (showString "MkT2 ") (showsPrec 11 b1)) When typechecking the code for ‛showsPrec’ in a standalone derived instance for ‛Show (T Int)’: To see the code I am typechecking, use -ddump-deriv In the instance declaration for ‛Show (T Int)’ }}} The derived instance declaration matches on all the constructors, even if they cannot possibly match. It should omit obviously inaccessible constructors so that this example is accepted. For reference, the derived code is: {{{ instance GHC.Show.Show (StandaloneDerivingGADT.T GHC.Types.Int) where GHC.Show.showsPrec _ StandaloneDerivingGADT.MkT1 = GHC.Show.showString "MkT1" GHC.Show.showsPrec a_aij (StandaloneDerivingGADT.MkT2 b1_aik) = GHC.Show.showParen ((a_aij GHC.Classes.>= 11)) ((GHC.Base..) (GHC.Show.showString "MkT2 ") (GHC.Show.showsPrec 11 b1_aik)) GHC.Show.showList = GHC.Show.showList__ (GHC.Show.showsPrec 0) }}} The same problem applies to other derivable classes (e.g. `Eq`). -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8128> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #8740: Code conditionally compiles
by GHC 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

#8740: Code conditionally compiles ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: thomaseding | Status: new Type: bug | Milestone: Priority: normal | Version: 7.6.3 Component: Compiler | Operating System: MacOS X Keywords: | Type of failure: GHC rejects valid program Architecture: | Test Case: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking: Difficulty: Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- {{{ {-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-} {-# LANGUAGE StandaloneDeriving #-} data Abstract data Reified data Player data Elect p a where ElectRefAsTypeOf :: Int -> Elect Abstract a -> Elect Abstract a ElectHandle :: a -> Elect Reified a Controller :: Elect Abstract Player Owner :: Elect Abstract Player You :: Elect Abstract Player deriving instance (Eq a) => Eq (Elect p a) deriving instance (Ord a) => Ord (Elect p a) }}} As is, the above code fails to compile. But if I move `ElectRefAsTypeOf` to be the last constructor for the GADT, the code does compile. If I remove one of the `Elect Abstract Player` constructors, the code still won't compile even if the `ElectRefAsTypeOf` is moved. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8740> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #12714: T9405 fails on Windows
by GHC 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

#12714: T9405 fails on Windows --------------------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: Runtime System | Version: 8.0.1 Keywords: | Operating System: Windows Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: None/Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: --------------------------------------+--------------------------------- The `T9405` testcase currently fails on Windows, {{{ }}} Contrary to what was suggested in ticket:12004#comment:3 it looks like the problem is that an empty `.ticky` file is produced. Even increasing the `sleep` time to 10 seconds (after bumping the sleep in `T9405.hs` accordingly) doesn't change this, so I suspect there is a runtime system bug here. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12714> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #9599: app runs 10 times faster when compiled with profilling information than without it
by GHC 21 Jul '18

21 Jul '18

#9599: app runs 10 times faster when compiled with profilling information than without it -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: kgardas | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Solaris Architecture: x86 | Type of failure: Runtime Difficulty: Unknown | performance bug Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Hello, I've found interesting application code which when compiled with {{{ -O2 -threaded --make }}} runs 10 times slower than the same code compiled with {{{ -O2 -threaded --make -prof -auto-all -caf-all -fforce-recomp }}} the application is compiled by GHC 7.8.2 on i386-solaris2 platform. The profiling application is then run as normal application, i.e. without +RTS -p. The application itself is my crude beginner Haskell code which takes Wikipedia dump (XML file) and tries wiki pages from there import into XWiki using REST API. It uses Data.Text package for lazy load of Wikipedia data, whole logic of selection of page/title/content is done on Data.Text and later saved into XPage which is using ByteString. The application also uses Simon Marlow's Async/async/wait code which is copied from Simon Marlow's Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929 App attached. My question is, what to do with it to help finding the issue? E.g. I assume it's issue when profiling app is that much faster than common optimized app. For your information, optimized app takes 9m50s to upload 1000 pages while profiled optimized app takes only 50s to upload the same amount of pages on my equipped with E5-2620 (2 GHz 6 core/12 threads xeon) Also the difference in time is that big that it's not caused by a noise in import of pages on XWiki side. I've tested several times of course. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9599> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #12606: Linux (ELF) Support for "ghc -static -shared"
by GHC 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

#12606: Linux (ELF) Support for "ghc -static -shared" ----------------------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: tmobile | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: ⊥ Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 Keywords: | Operating System: Linux Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: ----------------------------------------+--------------------------------- On some platforms it is possible to create a stand-alone shared library out of some object `Foo.o` including foreign exports with something like: `ghc -static -shared Foo.o ...` The resulting library will have `Foo`'s dependencies including `base` as well as the RTS statically linked in. On BSDs this is possible because generating position independent code is the default there, and on Windows this is possible because the dynamic loader uses some magic that doesn't require position independent code. Unfortunately on Linux this is not possible because `libHSbase`, `libHSrts`, etc. are not built with `-fPIC` unless one specifically asks for it when building GHC. As far as I know this is the only way to get `-static -shared` to work on this platform. There are use cases for compiling Haskell code into a single shared object that does not have additional runtime dependencies. Suppose one wishes to write a plugin for a program in Haskell. It would be nice to provide the plugin as a single shared object, rather than requiring GHC's libraries to be present at runtime as well. An easy solution might be adding a switch to the configure script or `build.mk` to make it easier to build GHC+libs with `-fPIC` on Linux. Ideally it would be possible to build and install both PIC and non-PIC libraries and have GHC choose the correct one at link time based on the flags and target platform, since PIC code carries a small space/performance overhead and isn't necessary on Linux in most cases. I don't know my way around GHC(outside of the GHC API) or the build system that well yet, but if adding extra build system flags and GHC link-time flag handling code to make this work is an acceptable solution I'm happy to spend the time to get this working. -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12606> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #13194: Concurrent modification of package.cache is not safe
by GHC 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

#13194: Concurrent modification of package.cache is not safe -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: arybczak | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: ghc-pkg | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- There are a couple of different issues here. 1. On Linux, issuing `ghc-pkg register` for multiple packages in parallel might result in lost updates to package database because of how `registerPackage` function works - it reads existing package databases, picks the one to modify, then checks that package info for the package to register is fine and replaces package database with what was read in the beginning + new package info. Therefore, if updates interleave, it might happen that process1 reads the database, then process2 updates it while process1 still has the old version and uses it for its update later, so update made by process2 is lost. 2. On Windows, update to package database might fail - the issue is that GHC attempts to update it using rename trick, which fails whenever any other process has file to be replaced open for reading. Combine that with the fact that GHC reads package database when compiling packages and you get problems in both Stack (https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2617) and Cabal (https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/4005) BTW, rename trick (used for atomic database updates) not only doesn't work on Windows, it's also not atomic e.g. on NFS (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41362016/rename-atomicity-and-nfs) The solution to both problems is to use OS specific features to lock database file (in shared mode when reading and in exclusive mode when writing). This can be done on Windows using LockFileEx. Unfortunately for POSIX things are a bit more complicated. There are two ways to lock a file on Linux: 1. Using fcntl(F_SET_LK) (POSIX API) 2. Using flock (BSD API) However, fcntl locks have a serious limitation: The record locks described above are associated with the process (unlike the open file description locks described below). This has some unfortunate consequences: * If a process closes any file descriptor referring to a file, then all of the process's locks on that file are released, regardless of the file descriptor(s) on which the locks were obtained. This is bad: it means that a process can lose its locks on a file such as /etc/passwd or /etc/mtab when for some reason a library function decides to open, read, and close the same file. * The threads in a process share locks. In other words, a multithreaded program can't use record locking to ensure that threads don't simultaneously access the same region of a file. Whereas flock is not guaranteed to work with NFS, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking#Problems: Whether and how flock locks work on network filesystems, such as NFS, is implementation dependent. On BSD systems, flock calls on a file descriptor open to a file on an NFS-mounted partition are successful no-ops. On Linux prior to 2.6.12, flock calls on NFS files would act only locally. Kernel 2.6.12 and above implement flock calls on NFS files using POSIX byte-range locks. These locks will be visible to other NFS clients that implement fcntl-style POSIX locks, but invisible to those that do not.[4] Assuming that the solution would be to go with locking the database, we would need to: 1. In `registerPackage`, lock all read databases in shared mode except for the database that will later be modified, which has to be locked in exclusive mode. The handle also would need to be kept open and passed to `changeDB` later and used for rewriting the database with updated version in `GHC.PackageDb.writePackageDb` instead of `writeFileAtomic` (which is not actually unconditionally atomic, as demonstrated above). 2. `GHC.PackageDb.decodeFromFile` would lock a file in appropriate mode and return the handle to open file if appropriate. 3. Add support for locking a file. This should be fairly easy to do in GHC.IO.Handle.FD by extending function `openFile'` with appropriate parameters and then adding wrapper function `openLockedFile` or something. We can add both blocking and non-blocking locking to make ghc-pkg show information about waiting for locked package database if appropriate. Alternatively we could add a function similar to the following: `hLock :: Handle -> LockMode -> Bool{-block-} -> IO Bool`, but that requires extracting file descriptor from Handle, which as far as I see is problematic. Is going with locking an acceptable solution here? -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13194> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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[GHC] #13184: :show bindings broken under -fexternal-interpreter
by GHC 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

#13184: :show bindings broken under -fexternal-interpreter -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: niteria | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: GHCi | 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This is straight from GHC HEAD: {{{ $ ./inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --interactive -fexternal-interpreter GHCi, version 8.1.20170123: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/bnitka/.ghc/ghci.conf package flags have changed, resetting and loading new packages... Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/bnitka/.ghci Prelude> let a = 1 Prelude> :show bindings a :: Num p => p = *** Exception: ghc-stage2: this operation requires -fno-external- interpreter Prelude> }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13184> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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