[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why do ghc-built binaries use timer_create?

This comes from an issue in haskell-beginner, (...)

For better or worse, this is something that people should not be trying in the first place, (...)

Sure! That's what I sugested in the original question. I'm actually just curious on why timer_create is used at all. This is probably just a small detail in program initialization, and maybe a link to some description of what happens on program initialization (specially ghc generated binaries) behind the naive user view would do it. Thanks, Maurício