September 2001 - Glasgow-haskell-users

More GHC 5.02 binaries available
by Julian Seward (Intl Vendor) 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

The web site (http://www.haskell.org/ghc) now has final binary builds for x86-Linux sparc-solaris Windows NT/2K/XP and allegedly 95/98/ME Additionally, the final source tarball is now on the web page. I claim (and earnestly hope) it is suitable for building other binary builds of 5.02. $ md5sum -b ghc-5.02-src-2.tar.bz2 0bf8b670759240032c317fec6b02f59d *ghc-5.02-src-2.tar.bz2 J

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RE: .hs loads instead of .o
by Simon Marlow 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

> ghci -package pk Foo > loads the interpreted code Foo.hs, > > if Foo.hs resides in the current directory > and *.o modules are gathered in a library in other directory > referred by pk. > > But is this natural? > Maybe, it should search first in all visible object libraries? Are you saying that the package 'pk' also contains a module called 'Foo'? If that's the case, then it is really an error for there to also be a Foo.hs on the path, and it is likely to lead to trouble as GHC will get confused about which one you mean. If that's not the case, could you give more details? (i.e. list the contents of the directories involved, the package spec for package 'pk', and tell us what you expect to happen). Cheers, Simon

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RE: extra_ghc_opts syntax
by Simon Marlow 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

> Dear ghc-5.02-linux-i386-unknown, > > You understand extra_ghc_opts = ["-v","-O"] > when using a package, > but not extra_ghc_opts = ["-v -O"] > > And I intended to set in Makefile > ... > ex = -ddump-hi-diffs -fglasgow-exts -fallow-overlapping-instances > -fallow-undecidable-instances -fno-warn-overlapping-patterns > -fwarn-unused-binds -fwarn-unused-matches -fwarn-unused-imports > ... > > pk = Package {... > extra_ghc_opts = ["\"$(ex)\""], > ... > } > > ... echo $(pk) | ghc-pkg -a > > > What may be a reasonable way out? Just write the list twice, once with the quotes and commas and once without? Alternative I guess you could try to transform one into the other using sed, perl, python, etc. but I would just do it the easy way. Cheers, Simon

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.hs loads instead of .o
by S.D.Mechveliani 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

Dear ghc-5.02, ghci -package pk Foo loads the interpreted code Foo.hs, if Foo.hs resides in the current directory and *.o modules are gathered in a library in other directory referred by pk. But is this natural? Maybe, it should search first in all visible object libraries? ----------------- Serge Mechveliani mechvel(a)botik.ru

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extra_ghc_opts syntax
by S.D.Mechveliani 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

Dear ghc-5.02-linux-i386-unknown, You understand extra_ghc_opts = ["-v","-O"] when using a package, but not extra_ghc_opts = ["-v -O"] And I intended to set in Makefile ... ex = -ddump-hi-diffs -fglasgow-exts -fallow-overlapping-instances -fallow-undecidable-instances -fno-warn-overlapping-patterns -fwarn-unused-binds -fwarn-unused-matches -fwarn-unused-imports ... pk = Package {... extra_ghc_opts = ["\"$(ex)\""], ... } ... echo $(pk) | ghc-pkg -a What may be a reasonable way out? ----------------- Serge Mechveliani mechvel(a)botik.ru

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RE: unterminated {-
by Simon Marlow 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

> Seems to me it would make more sense for the message > XXXX.hs:214: unterminated `{-' > message to tell me where the {- is, rather than where the EOF is. Thanks, I've fixed the error message. Cheers, Simon

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25 Sep '01

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Re: 5.02: windows installation glitches
by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:10:59 +0100, Reuben Thomas <rrt(a)dcs.gla.ac.uk> pisze: >> 1. Manual suggests installing ghc in directory without spaces in the >> name; yet the default one is named "Glasgow Haskell Compiler". > > The manual is wrong. AFAIK it's simply outdated; this used to be a problem. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk * qrczak(a)knm.org.pl http://qrczak.ids.net.pl/ \__/ ^^ SYGNATURA ZASTÊPCZA QRCZAK

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5.02: windows installation glitches
by Roman Belenov 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

1. Manual suggests installing ghc in directory without spaces in the name; yet the default one is named "Glasgow Haskell Compiler". 2. Table of contents in the manual contains ?? instead of page numbers as though TeX was not run enough times during build. -- With regards, Roman.

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Re: Ptr and ForeignPtr Questions
by Ashley Yakeley 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

At 2001-09-23 23:12, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote: >> I was just hoping for GHC to be able to spit out headers for 'foreign >> import' functions that the user could then define. This merely means a >> map from some restricted set of Haskell function types to C types. > >Functionality like that is not part of the FFI. However, it >would surely be possible to write an extra tool that >accomplishes just what you want. (It was a general design >rule to avoid in the basic FFI features that would be >complicated to define/implement and can as easily be >implemented by a tool.) Right. This would be very similar to the 'javah' tool used in the Java world. That works on compiled .class files, I suppose the equivalent would be a module that "plugged in" to the GHC "motherboard". >Moreover, the case where you bind to existing C functions is >much more common than where you bind to C functions that you >have written yourself. Right, but it's a more ambitious goal for the FFI designer, at least if they want to do it completely. As you point out, there are restrictions on just what existing C functions you can bind to. If your function looks like this: const char* foo (struct SomeLinkedList*); ...you have no choice but to write 'impedance-matching' code for that function. >structs are not allowed as arguments to foreign imported >functions. Exactly! And neither are const pointers. But argument const-ness, at least, can be safely ignored. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA

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