On 28 June 2005 08:58, John Meacham wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:00:46AM +0100, Claus Reinke wrote:
I'd like to second this - the Win32 problems in 6.4 are preventing several projects from moving forward. Any word on 6.4.1? The major FFI bug in 6.4 is holding back some projects of mine.
if you have projects depending on this, I assume you are aware of the nightly development snapshots and build logs (for both HEAD and STABLE; not many platforms, but including linux and windows/mingw)?
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download.html (bottom)
(nightly snapshots for windows have not always been available, but now that they are, thanks to Sigbjorn, it would be good to make use of them - not just to get rid of bugs in the last release, but to avoid bugs in the next one)
Yeah, I should have said that I have projects waiting to be released until people can compile with a standard version of ghc. Asking people to install a cvs snapshot is not something I want to do. :)
You can work around the FFI problem - just use a C function to return the pointer value instead of foreign import "&". You can even inline the C function and compile via-C to get the same code. I had in mind a timescale of 1-2 months for 6.4.1 - there's various other stuff on my queue first. We want to have a performance shakedown for one thing, and I'd really like 6.4.1 to have GHCi on x86-64. Cheers, Simon