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05/15/08:

10:54 Ticket #2288 (ghc-6.8.2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 6.8.2 for ...) created by mthompso
I am filing this because ghc-6.8.2 told me to; I'm not competent to …
08:03 Ticket #2287 (GHCi fails to start) created by felixmar
GHCi fails to start with following error message: […] Both GHC version …
07:18 GhcApiStatus edited by nominolo
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07:18 GhcApiStatus edited by nominolo
Start describing use case and non-functional requirements (diff)
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05:51 GhcApiStatus edited by nominolo
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05:40 GhcApiStatus edited by nominolo
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05:36 GhcApiStatus edited by nominolo
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05:14 Ticket #2286 (HGL library do not compile) created by rgarciapariente
if you try to compile HGL-3.2.0.0 in ghc 6.8.2 on Windows: […] But: …
02:03 GhcApiStatus created by nominolo
Started GHC API Improvement status page

05/14/08:

17:48 Ticket #2279 (Include library source code in distribution) closed by igloo
worksforme: Thanks for the suggestion. Happily, the docs already include the source …
08:24 Ticket #2285 (Solaris 9 build fails at stage2 with undefined symbol errors (for libm ...) created by TimBishop
(A copy of the pasted errors is attached to the ticket) I'm having a …
08:23 Ticket #2284 (Stack-hack optimization causes much re-computation in GUI callbacks) created by sedillard
This is a duplicate of #1168, recorded for posterity here, at the request …
02:48 Ticket #2283 (WIndows: loading objects that refer to DLL symbols) created by simonmar
This is a test case from #1288, distilled into a separate report so I can …

05/13/08:

08:36 Ticket #2282 (threaded runtime system crashes on powerpc with -N2) created by malcolm.wallace@…
A program using threads (in a somewhat naive way) crashes at runtime, only …
06:54 Ticket #2281 (properFraction implemented with modf primitive?) created by guest
I need a fast 'fraction' function for Double. I can use 'properFraction', …
06:00 Ticket #2280 (randomR too slow) created by guest
randomR is considerably slower than implementing it manually. Maybe I have …

05/12/08:

22:00 Ticket #2279 (Include library source code in distribution) created by guest
I suggest including source code for haskell libraries in the distribution …
17:38 Ticket #2277 (GHCi silently aborts on 'take' computation) reopened by cdsmith
Oops, not true. No, the problem still happens. But it appears to be …
17:36 Ticket #2277 (GHCi silently aborts on 'take' computation) closed by cdsmith
invalid: Found the problem. Ubuntu has two different packages that install a …
01:46 Ticket #2274 (ghc assumes sizeof (void *) != 32 on X86_64) closed by simonmar
duplicate: this is the same issue as #1717 The workaround is to use `linux32 …

05/11/08:

04:55 Ticket #2278 (Inconsistent behaviour between -odir and -hidir options) created by guest
(From Adrian Hey) The -hidir <mydir> option creates <mydir> if it does …

05/09/08:

18:55 Ticket #2277 (GHCi silently aborts on 'take' computation) created by cdsmith
With latest GHC from darcs repository, on an AMD64 system, performing a …
08:51 Ticket #2276 (foreign import stdcall "&foo" doesn't work) created by simonmar
Importing a label with the stdcall calling convention fails to remember …
02:40 Commentary/CodingStyle edited by simonmar
mention using wiki commentary rather than comments where appropriate (diff)
01:41 Ticket #2275 (Poor indication of type error location) created by guest
Using {-# OPTIONS_GHC -XArrows -fno-monomorphism-restriction #-}, and …

05/08/08:

13:01 Ticket #2274 (ghc assumes sizeof (void *) != 32 on X86_64) created by ion
My provider has a 32-bit debian installed on a 64-bit architecture, ghc …
10:05 Ticket #2273 (inlining defeats seq) created by igloo
Consider this module: […] Compiling with […] we get, in the STG, …
07:35 Status/May08 edited by simonpj
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07:04 Ticket #2272 (internal error: getMBlock: mmap: Bad file number) created by hpwei
I cut and paste the code from …
04:25 Commentary/Compiler/Backends/PprC edited by simonmar
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04:24 Commentary/Compiler/Backends/PprC edited by simonmar
update prototype info (diff)
01:24 Status/May08 edited by chak
More about NDP (diff)
00:59 Status/May08 edited by chak
Add CfT (Call for Testing) to type family entry (diff)

05/07/08:

17:28 Ticket #2271 (floor, ceiling, round :: Double -> Int are awesomely slow) created by dons
We have super-naive implementations of the RealFrac? class for Double. …
16:52 Ticket #2270 (gcd is specialised only for Int) created by dons
We have the general: […] And a specialisation for Int only: […] …
16:17 Ticket #2269 (Word type to Double or Float conversions are slower than Int conversions) created by dons
We have int2Double# and int2Float# primitives, but not equivalent ones for …
03:19 Status/Releases edited by simonmar
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05/06/08:

09:35 Ticket #2243 (Can we remove IlxGen, Java, JavaGen, PrintJava?) closed by igloo
fixed: Great, they're now gone!
09:03 Ticket #2268 (ghci "*** Exception: expectJust upseep1") created by guest
ghci gets confused, reporting "*** Exception: expectJust upseep1". I think …
08:43 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen edited by nr
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08:29 Status/May08 edited by tim
credit to Aaron T. (diff)
08:12 Status/May08 edited by tim
elaborate slightly on External Core (diff)
05:26 Status/May08 edited by simonpj
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05:26 Status/May08 edited by simonpj
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05:25 Status/May08 edited by simonpj
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05:19 Status/May08 edited by simonpj
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03:25 Ticket #2267 (Bogus "unused import" warning) created by simonpj
In DsMeta (in the source code for GHC itself), there's an import […] …

05/05/08:

18:26 Commentary/CmmKinds created by nr
18:22 Commentary edited by nr
Requested by Isaac Dupree (diff)
12:49 Ticket #2266 (validate requires haddock to be installed) created by thorkilnaur
A validate of a recent GHC HEAD on a machine that didn't have haddock …
03:03 Ticket #2248 (.exe extension missing when compiling a file ending in dot + digits + dot ...) reopened by NeilMitchell
The executable extensions are given by the environment variable %PATHEXT%. …
02:57 Ticket #2171 (Parallel program crashes) closed by igloo
fixed: Thanks judah; that patch is already merged, so I'll close this ticket.
02:54 Ticket #2248 (.exe extension missing when compiling a file ending in dot + digits + dot ...) closed by igloo
invalid: OK, thanks for the reply! No other opinions, so I'll close the ticket.
01:25 Ticket #2265 (GHC 6.8 (STABLE) autoconf version requirements issue) created by kgardas
Hello, I'm trying to build GHC stable on Solaris/x86 (Solaris Express …

05/04/08:

23:19 Ticket #2263 (GHC 6.8 (STABLE) branch build framework does not pass correctly ...) reopened by kgardas
Hello, the problem is that with your suggested --with-readline-* options, …
14:33 Ticket #2264 (Validate using ghc-6.4.1: 3 failures, 1 workaround, 1 fix) created by thorkilnaur
Using […] to validate a recent HEAD, I get the following error: […] …
12:57 Ticket #2263 (GHC 6.8 (STABLE) branch build framework does not pass correctly ...) closed by judah
worksforme: You should be able to do this by configuring ghc with the following …
12:32 Ticket #2263 (GHC 6.8 (STABLE) branch build framework does not pass correctly ...) created by kgardas
hello, it seems that build framework is a little bit buggy, since it does …
11:31 Ticket #2262 (Build failure of HEAD from 2008-05-04 on OS X 10.4.11) created by nominolo
Build fails with the following error message […] Version: 6.9.20080504 …

05/03/08:

14:19 Ticket #2261 (Foreign.C.Error.Errno should be an instance of (Eq,Ord, Show... others?)) created by TomMD
Errno, the Haskell encapsulation of the CInt 'errno' value, should be an …
13:22 Ticket #2260 (Non-ideal error message for misplaced LANGUAGE pragma) created by TomMD
Placing the LANGUAGE pragma anywhere besides the top results in it not …
05:36 Ticket #2259 (can not make `if` look nice in a `do`) closed by igloo
invalid: Thanks for the report. However, GHC is just following the language …
02:07 Ticket #2259 (can not make `if` look nice in a `do`) created by jsnx
The handling of if within a do block is not consistent with …

05/02/08:

12:16 Commentary/CodingStyle edited by simonpj
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09:09 Ticket #2188 (TH scoping problem) closed by igloo
fixed: The 6.8 branch is already OK, so closing this bug.
09:07 Ticket #2238 (panic nameModule tpl_B1{v}) closed by igloo
fixed: After a manual merge the test still failed, so I've just made the test an …
01:17 Commentary/CodingStyle edited by simonpj
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01:11 Commentary/CodingStyle edited by simonpj
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00:40 Ticket #2252 (Extreme performance degradation on minor code change) closed by simona
invalid: Ok, I think I get it. I've added a call to getArgs which makes both …

05/01/08:

15:51 Ticket #2258 (ghc --cleanup) created by claus
calling ghc --make generates a lot of files, .o, .hi, .exe, …
14:25 Ticket #2257 (validate hangs in configure) created by nr
Running ./validate on a freshly updated HEAD results in the script hanging …
06:59 Ticket #2256 (Incompleteness of type inference: must quantify over implication ...) created by simonpj
Consider this program (from Iavor) […] This example is rejected by both …
06:33 Ticket #2247 (GHC accepts FD violations, unless the conflicing instances are used) reopened by claus
Replying to simonpj: > I assume you are using some flags? …
04:04 Ticket #2247 (GHC accepts FD violations, unless the conflicing instances are used) closed by simonpj
duplicate: I assume you are using some flags? […] Adding -XFlexibleInstances
00:43 Ticket #2255 (Improve SpecConstr for free variables) created by simonpj
This ticket records a suggestion for improving SpecConstr, so we don't …
00:16 DataParallel/BenchmarkStatus edited by gckeller
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00:15 DataParallel/BenchmarkStatus edited by gckeller
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04/30/08:

23:19 DataParallel/BenchmarkStatus created by chak
23:18 DataParallel edited by chak
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23:16 DataParallel/Benchmarks edited by chak
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23:14 DataParallel/Benchmarks edited by chak
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23:13 DataParallel edited by chak
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16:50 Ticket #2254 (have Control.Arrow re-export (>>>) and (<<<)) created by ross
#1773 split the Arrow class, making (>>>) and (<<<) functions in …
14:56 TypeFunctionsStatus edited by simonpj
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14:50 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen edited by simonpj
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14:13 Ticket #1933 (Zero times in profiling with GHC-6.8.1) closed by igloo
fixed: Merged, and looks good: […]
14:10 Ticket #1780 (runInteractiveProcess broken with >2 processes on POSIX) closed by igloo
fixed: Both merged
12:34 Ticket #2137 (Location of shadowed binding is wrong in warning) closed by igloo
fixed: Test now passes correctly.
12:30 Ticket #2136 (Not warned about unused recursive bindings) closed by igloo
fixed: This doesn't merge cleanly, and I (the reporter) don't think it's very …
12:19 Ticket #2253 (Native code generator could do better) created by dons
An example set of programs that came up in the ndp library, where the C …[…]
11:00 Ticket #2251 (Missing conversion rules for realToFrac causing slowdowns in Int->Double ...) closed by dons
fixed: I've pushed a patch adding the rules for Int->Double and Int->Float. See: …
09:58 Internships edited by simonpj
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08:41 ExplicitCallStack edited by igloo
Add another alternative (diff)
01:55 Ticket #2252 (Extreme performance degradation on minor code change) created by simona
The attached code runs two similar calculations (call them a and …

04/29/08:

17:29 Ticket #2251 (Missing conversion rules for realToFrac causing slowdowns in Int->Double ...) created by dons
GHC.Real and GHC.Float currently have: […] But these avoid some …
15:42 Ticket #2250 (unpackFamily on Windows fails match) created by larsv
In the HostEntry? returned by Network.BSD.getHostByName, evaluating the …
15:09 Ticket #2249 (Undeclared variable in cmm reports as panic) created by millenix
In CMM code, if one makes an assignment to a variable that's not been …
09:36 Ticket #2248 (.exe extension missing when compiling a file ending in dot + digits + dot ...) created by oboudry
Hi all, I just encountered this very minor bug on Windows/GHC 6.8.2 When …
07:06 Ticket #2117 (ppc "./Setup build" seg-faults on Mac OS leopard) closed by igloo
duplicate: I'm closing this as a duplicate of #1958. Please reopen if you think that …
01:23 Building/Windows edited by dias
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04/28/08:

16:25 Ticket #2155 (More deadlock issues with concurrent I/O) closed by simonmar
duplicate: Now fixed, it was indeed a duplicate of #1780.
16:11 Ticket #2247 (GHC accepts FD violations, unless the conflicing instances are used) created by claus
consider […] the class instance for FD is odd, because there is no …
13:07 Ticket #2246 (Numeric literal very badly optimized) created by guest
Compile the following program with -ddump-simpl […] Note how there's …
13:01 Ticket #2245 (Numeric literal printed wrong in error message) created by guest
Compile the following with -Wall […] The error message says […] …

04/27/08:

19:12 Status/May08 edited by chak
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19:11 Status/May08 created by chak
19:10 Status edited by chak
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15:49 Ticket #2093 (getSymbolicLinkStatus (and possibly other functions) broken on systems ...) closed by igloo
fixed: Thanks for the patch! I've applied it to HEAD and 6.8 branch.
15:44 Ticket #2134 (Intermittent file locking bug in installPackage.hs) closed by igloo
fixed: OK, I've merged the patch.
15:42 Ticket #2217 (:list command missing from help) closed by igloo
fixed: Fixed in HEAD and 6.8 branch […]
15:29 Ticket #2069 (GHC crashes when both -shared and --make flags are specified) closed by igloo
fixed: It was already fixed in the HEAD. I've now also fixed it in the 6.8 …
14:37 Commentary edited by igloo
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14:37 Commentary/Libraries created by igloo
10:04 Ticket #2244 (load in GHCi doesn't work with UTF-8 filenames) created by malebria
When I try to load a file with a UTF-8 character, I got: […] With the …
09:51 Ticket #2199 (th32SnapEnumProcesses in System.Win32.Process prints debugging information ...) closed by igloo
fixed: Merged
09:49 Ticket #2129 (runInteractiveCommand/Process docs don't mention if handles are text or ...) closed by igloo
fixed: Fixed in HEAD and 6.8 branch by […]
09:47 Ticket #2036 (Show for Double and Float doesn't use parenthesis for negative zero.) closed by igloo
fixed
09:44 Ticket #2223 (Int64.toInteger) closed by igloo
fixed: Merged […]
09:44 Ticket #2071 (hp2ps does not handle SCCs with spaces in the identifiers) closed by igloo
fixed: Fixed (in the sense that we now give an error if spaces are used in an SCC …
07:45 Commentary/CodingStyle edited by igloo
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04/26/08:

16:21 Ticket #2242 (review and apply small patch removing no longer existing modules from ghc ...) closed by MarcWeber
duplicate
14:20 Ticket #2243 (Can we remove IlxGen, Java, JavaGen, PrintJava?) created by MarcWeber
See patch description. Another small hasktags patch making it find more …
14:19 Ticket #2242 (review and apply small patch removing no longer existing modules from ghc ...) created by MarcWeber
See patch description
13:57 Ticket #2198 (Build failure on Mac OS X Tiger Intel) closed by igloo
fixed: Thanks for the report. Happily, from …
03:50 Ticket #2241 (unknown epilogue mangling, WARNING: Epilogue junk) created by igloo
At some point (before the 10th Apr) we started getting epilogue junk in …

04/25/08:

17:46 Ticket #2230 (ghci crashes with .o mismatches) closed by igloo
worksforme: This works for me. If you can reproduce it, please reopen this bug and …
11:59 Ticket #2240 (Random "interface file corrupt" while building) created by ryani
I don't have a repro case for this right now; I'll try get my code back to …
09:20 ExtensibleRecords edited by guest
Functional References (diff)
09:02 Ticket #2237 (qualified names not permitted everywhere in instances) closed by simonpj
invalid: OK I think we are agreeing that GHC implements the spec. We can argue …
05:43 Ticket #2239 (lack of improvement/reduction with TFs) created by claus
[…] for some reason, the TF version doesn't work as well as the FD …
04:46 Ticket #2238 (panic nameModule tpl_B1{v}) created by claus
using the attached code, we get […] but if we uncomment the CTF
04:16 Ticket #2237 (qualified names not permitted everywhere in instances) created by claus
consider using a class that is imported qualified only: - we cannot …
01:39 Ticket #2236 (Deep stacks make execution time go through the roof) created by simonpj
In the code below, switching from mapM_ to mapM causes a 20x change in …

04/24/08:

20:56 Commentary/Compiler/Backends/NCG/RegisterAllocator/Code edited by benl
fix broken links (diff)
12:02 Building/Windows edited by dias
more IE formatting (diff)
11:59 Building/Windows edited by dias
formatting for IE (diff)
07:26 Building/Windows edited by dias
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05:50 Ticket #2196 (Errors in output from formatTime) closed by igloo
invalid: Thanks for the report. However, the time package says: […] so please …
01:08 TypeFunctionsStatus edited by simonpj
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00:52 Ticket #2235 (Bogus occurs check with type families) created by simonpj
Consider this program, using type families: […] I get the error (from …

04/23/08:

17:19 Ticket #2221 (Can't use quotations ([| ... |]) insides declaration splices) closed by igloo
duplicate: Thanks for the report. The problem you're seeing here is that you can't …
15:17 Ticket #2227 ((fgl) reimplement Data.Graph.Inductive.Query.Dominators) closed by int-e
fixed: Martin Erwig kindly applied the patch.
13:22 Ticket #2179 (Improve error message when `main' is not of the right type) closed by igloo
fixed: Test added (tcfail199)
13:22 Ticket #2141 (Internal error on invalid record update) closed by igloo
fixed: Merged, and rnfail054 added.
13:21 Ticket #2044 ("Can't unify" error in debugger) closed by igloo
fixed: Merged
12:00 Ticket #2158 (deriving (Ix) and listArray give unexpected results) closed by igloo
fixed: Merged
10:46 Ticket #2234 (Profiled binaries create empty files) created by guest
[…] I recently happened to go through the effort to build a copy of …
08:23 Building/Windows edited by dias
typo (diff)
05:16 Ticket #2097 (bug in regEnumKeys (System.Win32.Registry)) closed by igloo
fixed: I've merged the patch now, and I'm pretty sure it's safe, if not optimal, …
05:11 Ticket #2192 (occasional segmentation faults when using Control.Parallel) closed by igloo
fixed: Merged
03:07 Building/GettingTheSources edited by dias
rearranged some text for clarity (diff)

04/22/08:

15:12 Ticket #2233 (Overhaul System.Process) created by simonmar
== Overhaul of System.Process == From the patch: […] Haddock for the …
11:25 Ticket #2231 (ASSERT failed! file typecheck/TcMType.lhs line 442 t_a7Fa{tv} [tau]) created by guest
As discussed this afternoon on #ghc. From the attached tarball, unpack, …
09:16 Building/Windows edited by dias
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02:36 Ticket #2230 (ghci crashes with .o mismatches) created by guest
Basic recipe is: 1) have multi-file program, compile with ghc --make …
02:07 Building/PlatformsScriptsFileNames edited by dias
typo (diff)
02:05 WindowsGhc edited by dias
dead link (diff)
01:59 Status/Releases edited by simonpj
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01:56 Status/Releases edited by simonpj
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01:51 WikiStart edited by simonpj
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01:49 Status/Releases edited by simonpj
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01:48 WikiStart edited by simonpj
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01:47 Status/Releases created by simonpj
01:31 WikiStart edited by simonpj
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01:30 Commentary edited by simonpj
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01:29 WikiStart edited by simonpj
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04/21/08:

20:50 Ticket #2229 (ghc crashes on trying to build encoding module) closed by ajd
duplicate: Duplicate of #2225.
20:45 Ticket #2229 (ghc crashes on trying to build encoding module) created by guest
It gets this far: […]
17:05 Ticket #2228 (runghc screws up terminal buffering mode and doesn't reset it) created by guest
If I use runghc to run a Haskell script that reads from stdin, my terminal …
14:05 Ticket #2227 ((fgl) reimplement Data.Graph.Inductive.Query.Dominators) created by int-e
As pointed out at …
07:52 Ticket #2226 (duplicate samples in heap profiling (-hc) output on 6.8.2) created by clemens
I tried to catch a bug in xmonad by using heap profiling (-hc). Compiled …
01:27 ExplicitCallStack edited by simonpj
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04/18/08:

17:09 Ticket #2211 (Installing latest GHC-6.8.2 stable: pwd with floating point exception) closed by igloo
invalid: Thanks for the report. However, this is caused by your system libraries …
16:57 Ticket #2214 (trac wishes: "performance feature request" ticket type, "trac" component) closed by igloo
invalid: I'm not sure that performance bug vs performance feature request is a …

04/16/08:

21:01 Ticket #2225 (hackage library encoding-0.4 crashes ghc 6.8.2) created by guest
This is on i386 ubuntu gutsy. Output of "runghc Setup.hs build" is: …
17:54 Ticket #2224 (-fhpc inteferes/prevents rewrite rules from firing) created by dons
Use case: I'm writing tests for rewrite rules, and using HPC to determine …
14:44 Ticket #2223 (Int64.toInteger) created by gnezdo
[…] The problem appears to be in the recently changed …
11:22 Ticket #2220 (Subprocesses do not close open FDs) closed by simonmar
duplicate: See #1780, and the discussion on haskell-cafe that is linked from it.
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