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10/03/12:

06:48 WikiStart edited by guest
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06:05 Ticket #7294 (-fdefer-type-errors doesn't produce a warning) created by Feuerbach
With the attached code I get the expected error […] However, if I …
06:04 Ticket #7293 (Wrong location reported for inaccessible code with GADTs) created by goldfire
Consider this code: […] The pattern match on the last line is invalid …
01:03 Ticket #7222 (The text "Possible fix: add an instance declaration for ..." is redundant ...) closed by simonpj
fixed: I've done this now. Thanks for the suggestion. Simple is good. Simon
00:52 Ticket #7287 (Primops in RULES generate warnings) closed by simonpj
fixed: Good point, fixed.

10/02/12:

20:53 Ticket #7292 (Optimization works for Word but not Word32 or Word64) created by zuserm
GHC 7.6.1 fails to properly optimize some code when explicitly specifying …
16:02 Ticket #7291 (hp2ps should cope with incomplete data) created by nomeata
So that it can be run while the program is generating the profiling data. …
12:45 Ticket #7290 (Minor documentation fix for directory) created by SimonHengel
09:36 Ticket #7288 (type inference fails with where clause (RankNTypes, TypeFamilies)) closed by simonpj
invalid: Well, I'm afraid this is by design. With TypeFamilies, local let or …
08:37 Ticket #5030 (Slow type checking of type-level computation heavy code.) closed by simonpj
fixed: I think it's as good as it's going to get for now, and it's a bit of a …
08:34 Ticket #5591 (Type constructor variables not injective) closed by simonpj
fixed: Fixed at last; see #7205. I added both examples as regression tests. …
08:29 Ticket #7205 (Re-introduce left/right coercion decomposition) closed by simonpj
fixed: Done at last. Simon
08:17 Ticket #7248 (NewCodeGen does not create enough SRT labels when using SplitObjs) closed by simonmar
fixed: Great! thanks.
04:35 Ticket #7289 (Mingw FPU init not Windows compatible.) created by Lennart
Mingw initializes the FPU top 80 bit precision instead of MSVC's 53 bits …
01:38 Ticket #7288 (type inference fails with where clause (RankNTypes, TypeFamilies)) created by agrafix
when using RankNTypes and TypeFamilies with polymorphic functions, …

10/01/12:

15:00 Ticket #7287 (Primops in RULES generate warnings) created by rl
[…] produces the following warning: […]
14:56 Ticket #7286 (GHC doesn't optimise away primitive identity conversions) created by rl
Here is a small example: […] GHC produces the following code: […] …
04:29 Ticket #7285 (mkWeakMVar is non-compositional) created by edsko
In base 4.6 addMVarFinalizer is deprecated in favour of mkWeakMVar of …

09/30/12:

16:17 Ticket #7284 (plusAddr# x 0 isn't optimised away) created by rl
As the title says, there doesn't seem to be an optimisation rule for this. …
16:13 Ticket #7283 (Specialise INLINE functions) created by rl
Quick summary: At the moment, INLINE means inline a function if it is …
10:36 Ticket #7282 (polykinds error: Found `k' but expected `k') created by HolgerReinhardt
[…] fails with: […] If I change the kind of xs from [k] to [*], …

09/29/12:

11:18 Ticket #7281 (GHC 7.4.2 build fails on Fedora17) created by PaulJohnson
On Fedora 17 the build fails when attempting to run "configure". The …
07:21 Ticket #7274 (hp2ps sometimes creates invalid postscript files) closed by fryguybob
duplicate: This is a duplicate of #5800. I didn't think it was at first, but then …

09/28/12:

16:00 Ticket #7280 (zonkQuantifiedTyVar panic) created by rl
Small program (extracted from the dev version of vector): […] When I …
15:34 Ticket #7279 (warning for unused type variables in instance contexts; ...) created by nfrisby
I just spend 90 minutes tracking down what ended up being a typo …
13:16 Ticket #7278 (nonsensical kind variable ascription causes panic) created by nfrisby
[…] gives […]
07:27 Ticket #7277 (Recompilation check fails for TH unless functions are inlined) created by orenbenkiki
Even though  Issue 481 is …
06:03 Ticket #7276 (-fdefer-type-errors allows the types of quotations to be coerced, causing ...) created by parcs
-fdefer-type-errors allows the type of a quotation to be coerced into …
05:36 Ticket #7275 (Give more detailed information about PINNED data in a heap profile) created by edsko
This is particularly useful when tracking down memory leaks due to …
05:34 Ticket #7274 (hp2ps sometimes creates invalid postscript files) created by edsko
The attached .hp file is one example; running the resulting ps file …
02:16 Ticket #7273 (Binary size increase in nofib/grep between 7.6.1 and HEAD) created by simonmar
While browsing the nofib results comparing 7.6.1 and HEAD today, I noticed …

09/27/12:

06:00 Status/SLPJ-Tickets edited by simonpj
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05:58 Status/SLPJ-Tickets edited by simonpj
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04:59 Ticket #6014 (Crash; message says to report it, here it is.) closed by igloo
worksforme: No response from submitter, so closing.
04:50 Ticket #5953 (Program execution fails with runtime error.) closed by igloo
wontfix: I'm afraid there's really not much we can do without a way to reproduce …
00:21 Ticket #7272 (PolyKinds and mutually recursive modules) created by dreixel
A.hs […] A.hs-boot […] B.hs […] Leads to: […] The problem …

09/26/12:

16:59 Ticket #1884 (Win64 Port) closed by igloo
fixed: Thanks for the reminder; this is indeed now fixed!
04:32 Ticket #7182 (Control.Monad.ST module description should reference Data.STRef) closed by simonmar
fixed: Fixed: […]
00:25 Ticket #7271 (Panic with strictness annotation) closed by simonpj
fixed: I've modified #7210 to get it merget to 7.6

09/25/12:

15:28 Ticket #7271 (Panic with strictness annotation) created by acowley
This code […] results in a ghc: panic~ (the 'impossible' happened) in …
12:24 Ticket #7260 (directory-1.1.0.2 fails to build on ghc 7.0.3) closed by sopvop
wontfix: Actually it can't be built on 7.0.3 at all, because fileSystemEncoding …
08:53 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen/Cleanup edited by simonmar
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08:33 Ticket #7270 (Incorrect optimization with Data.ByteString.append) closed by duncan
fixed: Committed to the upstream bytestring repo. So it'll be fixed in the next …
00:45 Status/SLPJ-Tickets edited by simonpj
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09/24/12:

14:11 Ticket #7270 (Incorrect optimization with Data.ByteString.append) created by ocheron
The following program does not give the same result with -O2 and without: …
11:14 Commentary/Compiler/StgSynType edited by ezyang
Elaborate a little on let-no-escape based on StgSyn?.lhs (diff)
09:46 Ticket #7269 (GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving and PolyKinds) created by dreixel
The following code […] fails with this error: […] I believe this …
09:39 Ticket #7268 (Explicit type signatures for top level record pattern matches polymorphism ...) created by TristanAllwood
Consider the following module, which declares a record with two fields …
06:07 Ticket #7265 (directory 1.2.0.0 build fails on 7.4.2) closed by simonmar
duplicate: dup of #7262
05:51 GhcKinds/PolyTypeable edited by dreixel
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05:50 GhcKinds/PolyTypeable edited by dreixel
Update milestones (diff)
02:13 Ticket #7254 (Parallel processing and the -Nn flag) closed by simonmar
wontfix: There are occasionally reasons to want to use a higher -N value than the …
01:36 Ticket #7267 (linux-ppc64: Segfault during stage2 build) created by erikd
Build segfaults during the command: […] Running under GDB and …

09/23/12:

23:02 Ticket #7266 (Allow fractional-looking integer literals) created by shachaf
Haskell 2010 (2.5, 6.4.1) specifies that there are integer literals and …
13:29 Ticket #7265 (directory 1.2.0.0 build fails on 7.4.2) created by akaspin
Multiple errors: Ambiguous occurrence `try' It could refer to either …
12:01 Ticket #7264 (Adding GHC's inferred type signatures to a working program can make it ...) created by guest
[…] Without the commented-out type signature, the program typechecks …
05:30 Ticket #7263 (Add derived Show instances to GHC.Generics) created by dag
This would make it easier to learn to use generics by exploration from …

09/22/12:

21:06 TypeNats/MatchingOnNats edited by diatchki
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21:04 TypeNats/MatchingOnNats edited by diatchki
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21:01 TypeNats/MatchingOnNats edited by diatchki
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21:01 TypeNats/MatchingOnNats edited by diatchki
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20:55 TypeNats/MatchingOnNats edited by diatchki
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20:30 TypeNats/MatchingOnNats created by diatchki
20:02 TypeNats edited by diatchki
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13:31 Ticket #7262 (directory 1.2 fails to build with base < 4.6) created by sopvop
Old base still has try and catch in Prelude and System.IO.Error which …
04:56 Ticket #7251 (ghc: unrecognised flags: -fdph-par) closed by chak
invalid: Sorry, we need to update the documentation. Please use "-package …

09/21/12:

13:02 Ticket #7261 (ghci's :info and :browse break encapsulation) created by Feuerbach
In ghci, :info shows representations of abstract data types. I consider …
09:04 Ticket #7234 (Linker spews useless error message and failes.) closed by colah
invalid: This isn't a GHC bug but an ImplicitCAD one. It's the result of me being …
06:41 Ticket #7247 (Testsuite: Print stdout diff even if stderr diff already fails) closed by simonmar
fixed: Applied, thanks. […]
06:40 Ticket #7244 (T6106: Use /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash) closed by simonmar
fixed: Fixed, thanks. […]
05:22 Ticket #7260 (directory-1.1.0.2 fails to build on ghc 7.0.3) created by sopvop
It checks for ghc 7.0.3 here, but getFileSystemEncoding only appeared in …
03:43 Ticket #7255 (Wrong suggestion when deriving Generic on an instantiated type) closed by dreixel
fixed: Fixed. Turns out we even had a test for this already, and somehow were …
02:18 Ticket #7259 (Eta expansion of products in System FC) created by simonpj
This ticket is to capture the ideas in these GHC-users threads: …

09/20/12:

19:24 Building/RunningNoFib edited by AndreasVoellmy
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19:10 Building/RunningNoFib edited by AndreasVoellmy
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14:21 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen/Cleanup edited by simonmar
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03:04 Ticket #7258 (Compiling DynFlags is jolly slow) created by simonpj
Compiling DynFlags really takes a long time these days. Ian thinks …
02:20 Ticket #7257 (Regression: pinned memory fragmentation) created by jwlato
In certain cases, ghc-7.6.1 seems to have much worse memory behavior than …
01:42 Ticket #7256 (Missing dataCast1 and dataCast2 methods in Data.Data instances) created by dreixel
Having a look at Data instances in module Data.Data, Ptr a and …
01:35 Ticket #7255 (Wrong suggestion when deriving Generic on an instantiated type) created by dreixel
The following code […] gives rise to the error […] It should …

09/19/12:

10:43 Ticket #7254 (Parallel processing and the -Nn flag) created by mcandre
When I follow the Parallel Processing with Haskell tutorial …
05:12 Ticket #7253 (Top-level bindings in ghci) created by Feuerbach
ghci now supports most of the declarations. However, it doesn't support …

09/18/12:

15:03 Ticket #7252 (Impossible error when deriving lower-cased type class (nameModule show{tv ...) closed by guest
duplicate: This is already fixed in GHC 7.6, bug #5961.
13:28 Ticket #7252 (Impossible error when deriving lower-cased type class (nameModule show{tv ...) created by sfogarty
I had a student who incorrectly typed 'deriving (show)' instead of …
08:06 Ticket #7223 (Unregisterised and/or via-C compilation broken) closed by simonmar
fixed: I think this fixes it: commit 3f2eeeedf8a59efbbf904b57f65e1686f9dd6e8b …
06:54 Ticket #7251 (ghc: unrecognised flags: -fdph-par) created by leonardo
Hello, I have tried to compile the program that is given in …
06:32 ExplicitTypeApplication edited by diatchki
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05:48 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen edited by simonpj
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05:47 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen edited by simonpj
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05:21 Ticket #7250 (Documentation of System.Mem.Weak should emphasize finalizers may be run ...) created by edsko
The problem is mentioned in addFinalizer, but not in mkWeak; moreover, the …
04:39 Ticket #1877 (Change the meaning of -fextended-default-rules) closed by simonmar
fixed: Yes, I think we can.
03:04 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen edited by simonpj
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02:59 Ticket #7249 (ghc no longer needs to build HS*.o ghci library files) created by juhpetersen
I believe that ghci libraries files (HS*.o) are now redundant (and Cabal …
01:14 Ticket #7176 (Failure to let kind variable remain uninstantiated when not needed) closed by simonpj
fixed

09/17/12:

07:46 Ticket #7248 (NewCodeGen does not create enough SRT labels when using SplitObjs) created by darchon
When building HEAD I get the following error: make -r …
06:58 Holes edited by heisenbug
fix a reference (diff)
04:29 Ticket #7247 (Testsuite: Print stdout diff even if stderr diff already fails) created by nomeata
When doing test-driven development I find it handy to see the diff of …
03:51 Commentary/Compiler/Demand edited by ilya
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03:49 Commentary/Compiler/Demand edited by ilya
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03:43 Commentary/Compiler/Demand edited by ilya
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03:43 Commentary/Compiler/Demand/RelevantParts created by ilya
03:23 Ticket #7246 (Callstack depends on way (prof, profasm, profthreaded) created by nomeata
Consider the attached test case. The expected output is the that of the …

09/16/12:

21:02 Ticket #7245 (INLINEing top-level patterns causes ghc to emit 'arity missing' traces) created by jwlato
When an INLINE pragma is specified on a pattern, ghc-7.6.1 shows some …
20:20 Ticket #7244 (T6106: Use /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash) created by iquiw
testsuite/tests/ghci/scripts/T6106_preproc.sh should use /bin/sh instead …
19:55 Ticket #7243 (regression: acceptable foreign result types) created by dmwit
The following short file is rejected: […] The error is: […] …
02:25 Ticket #7242 (struct kevent is different on NetBSD) created by iquiw
The following is NetBSD's struct kevent. […] while FreeBSD's one is as …

09/14/12:

14:55 Ticket #7241 (GHC-7.6.1 panics on template haskell code) created by akamaus
While experimenting with TH I stumbled upon a repeating compiler panic. …
14:02 Ticket #7240 (Stack trace truncated too much with indirect recursion) created by nomeata
This is to write down the improvements suggestions for the stack trace …

09/13/12:

06:14 Ticket #7239 (GHC panic: MkExternalCore died: make_lit) created by audunska
Compiling the attached example with -fext-core crashes ghc with the …
04:43 SIMD edited by gmainland
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02:39 Ticket #7211 (Huge space leak on a program that shouldn't leak) closed by bartavelle
invalid: I erased and rebuilt all my packages again, everything works right. Sorry …

09/12/12:

20:43 Ticket #7238 (class methods with associated equality constraints panic) created by dmwit
The following file causes a panic ("getEqPredTys"): […]
19:50 Ticket #7237 (CgCase fails with strict data/functions) created by jwlato
The following code results in a ghc panic when compiled with -O or above: …[…]
14:57 Ticket #7236 (ghc panic) closed by simonpj
duplicate: Dup of #5961, happily fixed in 7.6
06:27 Ticket #7236 (ghc panic) created by danielhanlon
Apologies if this is an inappropriate bug report - I'm new to Haskell and …
03:28 Milestone 7.4.3 completed
03:17 Ticket #3942 (Strange profiling behaviour in 6.10.4) closed by igloo
invalid: No response from submitter, so closing.
03:10 Ticket #5723 (GHCi (7.4.0.20111219) sometimes segfaults when reading .ghci) closed by igloo
invalid: We no longer build OS X installers, so closing.

09/11/12:

06:18 Ticket #7203 (Add scanl') closed by igloo
wontfix: Could you please make a proposal on the libraries list (see …
06:14 Ticket #7135 (Data.Bits can still have default implementations for testBit, bit, and ...) closed by igloo
wontfix: I still think the decision was right. If you disagree, please make a new …
05:58 Ticket #7154 (making GHC from sources with a locally installed GHC 6.12.1 fails) closed by igloo
worksforme: I'm not quite sure what's happened here. It looks like something might be …
05:11 Ticket #7235 ("panic!" when compiling happstack-server-7.0.4) closed by igloo
duplicate: I suspect that what's happened here is that you've upgraded your …

09/10/12:

02:13 Ticket #7235 ("panic!" when compiling happstack-server-7.0.4) created by guest
I wanted to install happstack-server-7.0.4 for a project, then the …

09/09/12:

10:33 Ticket #7234 (Linker spews useless error message and failes.) created by timthelion
This is with ImplicitCAD as installed by way of […] All other …
09:11 Ticket #7144 (directory-1.1.1.0 violates the PVP) closed by pcapriotti
fixed: This is fixed now on both the HEAD and the 7.6 branch.
09:03 Ticket #7031 (Incorrect documentation for Windows dlls) closed by pcapriotti
fixed: Fixed by: […]
02:04 Ticket #7233 (Int64 division buggy on a 32-bit installation) created by lerkok
This is with GHC 7.4.1, running on Linux, 32 bits: […] Expected …

09/08/12:

23:51 Ticket #7232 (make hsc2hs work with -c g++) created by elaforge
Ticket #2897 changed hsc2hs to create a *_utils.c file containing stub …
20:49 Ticket #7231 (GHCi erroneously unloads modules after a failed :reload) created by parcs
---- Say you have three modules: […] […] […] And you run the …
17:11 Ticket #6093 (Kind polymorphism fails with recursive type definition using different ...) closed by Ashley Yakeley
fixed: OK, I see the problem. This compiles: […] But this doesn't: […] …
05:20 Ticket #7221 (DataKinds with recursive data and type synonym causing GHC to crash) closed by simonpj
worksforme: I can't reproduce this, with 7.4.1. However DataKinds are not an …
00:44 Ticket #7230 (GHC states the same kind mismatched) created by konn
The attached code fails to compile with following rather strange kind …

09/07/12:

12:24 Ticket #7229 (Detecting if a process was killed by a signal is impossible) created by benmachine
Currently there is no good way of detecting if a process was terminated by …
09:28 Ticket #7228 (ghc-pkg prints an awful lot of usage information) created by benmachine
If you misspell a command with ghc-pkg, you are rewarded with 112 lines of …
04:51 Ticket #7227 (cannot build ghc-7.6.1 because haddock seg-faults) created by maeder
[…] Can I try it somehow without haddock?
03:48 Ticket #5405 (Strange closure type crash when using Template Haskell on OS X Lion) closed by simonmar
worksforme: Thanks - this bug has been open for 13 months with no further info and …

09/06/12:

14:54 Milestone 7.6.1 completed
14:53 Ticket #7226 (bytestring changes in 7.6 branch) created by igloo
There have been some bytestring changes in the 7.6 branch since the 7.6.1 …
09:42 Ticket #7225 ("ghc -C" failed) created by guest
--- source file --- module Main where main = return () --- command line …
09:24 Ticket #7224 (Polymorphic kind annotations on type classes don't always work as expected) created by slindley
Consider the following code for defining Atkey-style parameterised monads: …
07:43 Ticket #7210 (Bang in front of type name crashes GHC) closed by pcapriotti
fixed: Thanks for the patch.
06:33 Ticket #7215 (miscompilation due to broken interface hash) closed by pcapriotti
fixed: Merged as 1aa031e7013caf59f3297d29e81ed573eb306356.
03:10 Ticket #7223 (Unregisterised and/or via-C compilation broken) created by simonmar
The new codegen broke unregisterised and/or via-C compilation. It should …
02:14 Ticket #7185 (Compiled program crashes) closed by pcapriotti
fixed: Merged as 13a833e51c141165d927325fa0d1bce9ccdab1de.
02:04 Ticket #7218 (No type level distinction between BroadcastTChan and TChan) closed by simonmar
fixed: […]
01:55 Ticket #6160 (support sub-second resolutions for file timestamps) closed by pcapriotti
fixed: Thank you for the patch. Applied as: […]
01:07 Ticket #7222 (The text "Possible fix: add an instance declaration for ..." is redundant ...) created by maltem
The current state of affairs: Given a typical type error, for example …

09/05/12:

21:01 Ticket #7221 (DataKinds with recursive data and type synonym causing GHC to crash) created by gereeter
When working on an answer to a stackoverflow …
10:35 Ticket #7220 (Confusing error message in type checking related to type family, fundep, ...) created by tsuyoshi
(This is related to, but different from, the message which I posted to …
07:32 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen/Cleanup edited by simonmar
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07:30 Ticket #7219 (Reinstate constant propagation in some form) created by simonmar
The new codegen doesn't have a constant propagation pass. This used to be …
05:53 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen/Cleanup edited by simonmar
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03:59 Ticket #7218 (No type level distinction between BroadcastTChan and TChan) created by timthelion
There is no type level distinction between BroadcastTChan(added in STM …
02:15 Ticket #7212 (GHCi segmentation fault) closed by simonmar
wontfix: This problem is caused by (we think) having an XCode that is too old. See …
01:44 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen edited by simonmar
remove old irrelevant stuff (diff)
01:40 Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen/Cleanup created by simonmar
01:27 Ticket #7217 (Unification of type variables in constraints) closed by sjoerd_visscher
wontfix: On second thought, it is perfect as it is.

09/04/12:

16:32 Ticket #7217 (Unification of type variables in constraints) created by sjoerd_visscher
The following code works: […] But this doesn't: […] With the …
05:49 Ticket #3202 (Make XNoMonomorphismRestriction the default in GHCi) closed by igloo
fixed: As this is a feature request, I don't think we should merge to 7.6 at this …

09/03/12:

21:03 Ticket #7216 (Compositional blocking on file descriptors) created by AndreasVoellmy
The GHC.Event.Thread module provides threadWaitRead, threadWaitWrite :: Fd …
19:24 Ticket #7215 (miscompilation due to broken interface hash) created by akio
The following script should print 'MyFalse MyTrue' but it prints …
18:06 Ticket #7214 (Missing Typeable instances) closed by selinger
invalid: OK, two seconds after submitting this report, I found out how to do it. …
17:49 Ticket #7214 (Missing Typeable instances) created by selinger
Data.Typeable defines Typeable instances for tuples of length up to 7. My …
08:16 Ticket #7213 (Test codeGen/should_compile/massive_array failing on 32-bits) created by simonmar
ezyang identified this problem with -fnew-codegen a while ago and made a …
07:48 SharedLibraries edited by duncan
fix link for PE format part 2 (diff)
06:29 Ticket #7212 (GHCi segmentation fault) created by zenzike
Using OS X 10.6.8 on a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 machine. XCode 4.0.2 …
03:47 Ticket #7193 (darcs 2.8 fails to compile with ghc 7.6) closed by simonpj
fixed: The following patch fixes this ticket, #7193 (NOT #7196 as claimed): …
02:36 Ticket #6042 (GHC is bloated) closed by pcapriotti
invalid: Closing, as there doesn't seem to be anything wrong here, just more code …
01:18 Ticket #7211 (Huge space leak on a program that shouldn't leak) created by bartavelle
I have a program that works in a small amount of memory on a computer …
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