Dear GHC team, this is on tracing in ghc-6.12.1 (made from source on Debian Linux i-386-like machine). I wonder what is the reason for this tracing message (starting with `Step1 ...' ): ---------------------------- ... equations calc = [j < i -> true, m <= p -> true, p <= q -> true, q <= n -> true, (A p) <= (A q) -> false, (X <= Y) | (Y < X) -> true, | {not (Y <= n), not (m <= X), not (X < i), not (j < Y), (A X) <= (A Y)} -> true, | {not (X <= Y), not (Y <= j), not (m <= X), (A X) <= (A Y)} -> true, | {not (XStep 1. Starting mutual pre-reduction. The number of rules is 25. Pre-reduction done. Initial numbers of equations is 9, after reduction: 9, the pre-reduction cost is 484. ... ... ---------------------------- The main program does the following in succession: 1) finds eqs, 2) prints "equations calc =\n", shows eqs "\n\n", "Starting completion.\n", "remaining goals = ", 3) finds res by completion (`complete'), 4) prints shows (completionGoalRem res) "\n" The trace calls are set only in the function `complete'. The above message Step 1. Starting mutual pre-reduction. The number of rules is 25. Pre-reduction done. Initial numbers of equations is 9, occurs the first message of this tracing. But the main program must have printed the full last equation in eqs, and only after this any tracing message could appear. Instead, it breaks the last equation printing with the tracing messages. The further evaluation is long, so I interrupted it, without seeing the final result. But this printing break looks strange, because eqs does not depend on the results of `complete', the reverse holds: the latter applies to eqs. Generally, I often observe an effect of this kind; it is harmless, but I wonder, what might be the reason. Regards, ----------------- Serge Mechveliani mechvel@botik.ru