#10613: Mechanism for checking that we only enter single-entry thunks once -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Milestone: Priority: normal | Version: 7.10.1 Component: Compiler | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Keywords: | Type of failure: Other Architecture: | Blocked By: Unknown/Multiple | Related Tickets: Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- During this week's GHC call it came up that it would be nice to have a linting mechanism for verifying that we only enter single-entry thunks once, as currently this invariant appears to be completely unchecked. Currently we do not record whether a thunk is intended to be single-entry when we emit its code. Moreover, I don't believe there is any room for this left in the info table to record this fact. There are two ways I can think of accomodating this, * stealing a bit from the thunk type field * add a flags field to `StgDebugInfo` such that the lint requires the `debug` way As far as implementing the check itself, I think it should be rather straightforward. When we enter a thunk we simply want to check whether it is single-entry. If it is then we replace it with a special type of `BLACKHOLE`-like thunk which crashes the program (or merely emits a warning) on entry. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10613 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler