#6084: Add stg_ap_pnnv and related call patterns -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: SimonMeier | Owner: simonmar Type: feature request | Status: closed Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Runtime System | Version: 7.7 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: 8313 Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by bgamari):

On the other hand, I don't see where we'd use those in the body of `p_entry`. And thus why we'd want to pass them in the first place?

Because this is what the calling convention that the function exposes. If the functions in `T6084` didn't have `NOINLINE` pragmas then we would have eliminated these dead arguments during core2core. However, since they do we are forced to expose precisely the calling convention that the user wrote. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/6084#comment:38 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler