a) is actually adding support for GHCi and HPC challenging? (if so whats
#9878: Static pointers in GHCi cause panic -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: monoidal | Owner: facundo.dominguez Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.9 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Unknown/Multiple | Difficulty: Unknown Type of failure: GHCi crash | Blocked By: Test Case: | Related Tickets: Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by mboes): the challenge? Let us help!) This tells me there might be a slight misinterpretation of Facundo's last comment. The point is, -XStaticPointers uses the exact same strategy as hpc for initializing the static pointer table. Insofar as there -XStaticPointers doesn't work in GHCi, it seems to not work for the same reason that hpc does not work. I very much suspect that whatever fix to this issue we find will equally apply to hpc. Should we nonetheless still file a separate bug report for the fact that HPC fails in the same way -XStaticPointers does at the GHCi prompt? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9878#comment:12 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler