ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 2

[George Colpitts]

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Carter!! llvm 3.5.1 fixed my llvm problem
> That leaves one issue with ghci and the normal compiler
>
>    - calling main from the ghci interpreter after loading *compiled* code
>    results in
>    - Prelude Main> main
>       Too late for parseStaticFlags: call it before runGhc or runGhcT
>       *** Exception: ExitFailure 1
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:11 PM, George Colpitts <
> george.colpitts at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','george.colpitts at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> I have llvm 3.4.2. Not sure why I thought that was the supported version.
>> Where would that be documented? There doesn't seem to be anything on this
>> in
>> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1-rc1/docs/html/users_guide/release-7-10-1.html
>>
>> There is lots of mail about llvm. I guess the following from Ben Gamari
>> on 11/28 implies llvm 3.5. I couldn't find anything more definitive.
>>
>> Once I get a definitive answer I will try again assuming the answer is
>> not 3.4.2
>>
>> To summarize,
>>
>>   * it seems like LLVM 3.4 chokes on the code produced by my 3.5 rework
>>     when the `$def` symbols are marked as internal
>>
>>   * ARM is broken (again) due to a bug in the GHC calling convention
>>     implementation; an LLVM fix is waiting to be merged
>>
>>   * I have code reworking TNTC for LLVM 3.6; unfortunately LLVM 3.6
>>     support will likely need to wait until 7.12
>>
>>   * Austin's LLVM packaging proposal seems very much like the right way
>>     forward
>>
>>   * Anticipating this proposal, I have started collecting [2]
>>     optimization passes
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Carter Schonwald <
>> carter.schonwald at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','carter.schonwald at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> George, what version of llvm are you using? afaik, only llvm 3.5 is
>>> supported for 7.10 (though I could be wrong)
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:39 PM, George Colpitts <
>>> george.colpitts at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','george.colpitts at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anybody successfully build and used this on the Mac on 10.10 using
>>>> the latest XCode? While it is better than RC1 I am still seeing the
>>>> following two issues:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - programs compiled with llvm fail at runtime with illegal
>>>>    instruction
>>>>    - calling main from the ghci inerpreter after loading compiled code
>>>>    results in
>>>>    - Prelude Main> main
>>>>       Too late for parseStaticFlags: call it before runGhc or runGhcT
>>>>       *** Exception: ExitFailure 1
>>>>
>>>> Instead of solving the above, I'd be happy to switch to a Mac OS
>>>> bindist and see if I have the same problems there. Do we have an ETA for a
>>>> Mac OS bindist?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> George
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','austin at well-typed.com');>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.10.1:
>>>>>
>>>>>     https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1-rc2/
>>>>>
>>>>> This includes the source tarball and bindists for 64bit/32bit Linux
>>>>> and Windows. Binary builds for other platforms will be available
>>>>> shortly. (CentOS 6.5 binaries are not available at this time like they
>>>>> were for 7.8.x). These binaries and tarballs have an accompanying
>>>>> SHA256SUMS file signed by my GPG key id (0x3B58D86F).
>>>>>
>>>>> We plan to make the 7.10.1 release sometime in February of 2015.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
>>>>> before the release!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
>>>>> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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