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) just in case, claus --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you starting a new FP research project? What have you learned from your last one? Present at TFP'05: http://www.tifp.org/tfp05 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- extended abstracts: 8th July 2005 <==== full papers: 2nd September 2005 symposium: 23/24 September 2005, Tallinn, Estonia (w.ICFP/GPCE) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Could you expand on what exactly those problems are? It would be a pity if some of them ended up not being addressed due to them not being generally known about. thx --sigbjorn ----- Original Message ----- From: David Nick Main To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 14:34 Subject: Re: 6.4.1? I'd like to second this - the Win32 problems in 6.4 are preventing several projects from moving forward. John Meacham wrote: Any word on 6.4.1? The major FFI bug in 6.4 is holding back some projects of mine. John

Thanks for the info, that clarifies matters. I interpreted your use of "Win32" to refer to platform-wide problems, not the (hierarchical) win32 API binding. The issue has been fixed, but you may want to consider using the non-hierarchical 'win32' hslibs package for the projects you refer to. It has been proven to work, something the hierarchical version hasn't yet (due to lack of wider-scale testing.) If people working on/with the Win32 library think that's an unfair claim, please speak up to pass on the good news. --sigbjorn ----- Original Message ----- From: David Nick Main To: Sigbjorn Finne Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 13:45 Subject: Re: 6.4.1? As reported when 6.4 first came out: C:\temp>ghci Toast.hs ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.4, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help. Loading package base-1.0 ... linking ... done. Compiling Toast ( Toast.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: Toast. *Toast> test Loading package Win32-1.0 ... <interactive>: Not x86 PEi386 ghc.exe: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 6.4): loadObj: failed Please report it as a compiler bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org, or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/. *Toast> where Toast.hs is: module Toast where { import Graphics.Win32; test = messageBox hWND_TOPMOST "Hello" "World" mB_OK; } Sigbjorn Finne wrote: Could you expand on what exactly those problems are? It would be a pity if some of them ended up not being addressed due to them not being generally known about. thx --sigbjorn ----- Original Message ----- From: David Nick Main To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 14:34 Subject: Re: 6.4.1? I'd like to second this - the Win32 problems in 6.4 are preventing several projects from moving forward. John Meacham wrote: Any word on 6.4.1? The major FFI bug in 6.4 is holding back some projects of mine. John