External Core front end is completely broken

[Kirsten Chevalier]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:08:50PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Ah, yes.  Fixed.
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: glasgow-haskell-bugs-admin at haskell.org
> [mailto:glasgow-haskell-bugs-admin at haskell.org] On
> | Behalf Of Kirsten Chevalier
> | Sent: 09 July 2003 00:25
> | To: glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org
> | Subject: External Core front end is completely broken
> | 
> | Using the latest version of GHC downloaded from CVS, it's impossible
> to use
> | GHC to compile any .hcr files that it generates itself. The reason for
> this
> | is that, as per the CVS log for prelude/PrelNames.lhs, all "Main"
> modules now
> | contain a definition for $Main.main -- however, the External Core
> lexer
> | still requires module names to begin with an upper-case letter,
> resulting in
> | a parse error.

Not quite -- the RTS still expected the main closure to be called
zdMain_main_closure, but once I fixed that, everything works as expected.
Patches are attached.

-- 
Kirsten Chevalier * krc at uclink.berkeley.edu * Often in error, never in doubt
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< extern StgClosure zdMain_main_closure;
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> extern StgClosure ZCMain_main_closure;
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< #define mainIO_closure            (&zdMain_main_closure)
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> #define mainIO_closure            (&ZCMain_main_closure)
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< extern void __stginit_zdMain(void);
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> extern void __stginit_ZCMain(void);
56c56
<     startupHaskell(argc,argv,__stginit_zdMain);
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>     startupHaskell(argc,argv,__stginit_ZCMain);