Hi. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM, John Meacham wrote:

Thanks! out of curiosity, were you encountering issues on a specific system with the other name?

My report had too few information. Jhc on darcs repo can't compile Haskell code on Debian GNU/Linux sid. $ jhc -o Fib.jhc Fib.hs jhc -o Fib.jhc Fib.hs jhc 0.8.1 (0.8.0-59) --snip-- /tmp/jhc_lEuIgU/rts/gc_jgc.c:21:14: error: conflicting types for ‘aligned_alloc’ In file included from /tmp/jhc_lEuIgU/jhc_rts_header.h:8:0, from /tmp/jhc_lEuIgU/rts/gc_jgc.c:1: /usr/include/stdlib.h:513:14: note: previous declaration of ‘aligned_alloc’ was here /tmp/jhc_lEuIgU/main_code.c: In function ‘ftheMain’: /tmp/jhc_lEuIgU/main_code.c:541:25: warning: statement with no effect [-Wunused-value] Exiting abnormally. Work directory is '/tmp/jhc_lEuIgU' jhc: user error (C code did not compile.) Because the aligned_alloc function is defined on C11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C_standard_revision) $ zcat /usr/share/doc/libc6-dev/changelog.Debian.gz | head -1 eglibc (2.16-0experimental0) experimental; urgency=low $ cat /usr/include/stdlib.h --snip-- #ifdef __USE_ISOC11 /* ISO C variant of aligned allocation. */ extern void *aligned_alloc (size_t __alignment, size_t __size) __THROW __wur __attribute__ ((__malloc__, __alloc_size__ (2))); #endif Then, I think it's useful to rename it. Regards, -- Kiwamu Okabe