#4837: Template Haskell does not work in a profiled compiler. -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: benl | Owner: simonmar Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 8.0.1 Component: Profiling | Version: 7.0.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Type of failure: GHC doesn't work | Unknown/Multiple at all | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by Simon Marlow ): In [changeset:"ce1f1607ed7f8fedd2f63c8610cafefd59baaf32/ghc" ce1f1607/ghc]: {{{ #!CommitTicketReference repository="ghc" revision="ce1f1607ed7f8fedd2f63c8610cafefd59baaf32" Make GHCi & TH work when the compiler is built with -prof Summary: Amazingly, there were zero changes to the byte code generator and very few changes to the interpreter - mainly because we've used good abstractions that hide the differences between profiling and non-profiling. So that bit was pleasantly straightforward, but there were a pile of other wibbles to get the whole test suite through. Note that a compiler built with -prof is now like one built with -dynamic, in that to use TH you have to build the code the same way. For dynamic, we automatically enable -dynamic-too when TH is required, but we don't have anything equivalent for profiling, so you have to explicitly use -prof when building code that uses TH with a profiled compiler. For this reason Cabal won't work with TH. We don't expect to ship a profiled compiler, so I think that's OK. Test Plan: validate with GhcProfiled=YES in validate.mk Reviewers: goldfire, bgamari, rwbarton, austin, hvr, erikd, ezyang Reviewed By: ezyang Subscribers: thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1407 GHC Trac Issues: #4837, #545 }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4837#comment:13 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler