GHC 5.05 panic in speceval_2 branch

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

I've no idea what state the speceval_2 branch is in. It's where Robert
was working on optimistic evaluation.  I'll let him comment.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-bugs-bounces at haskell.org
[mailto:glasgow-haskell-bugs-
| bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Abel
| Sent: 10 February 2004 22:06
| To: glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org
| Subject: GHC 5.05 panic in speceval_2 branch
| 
| I was trying to compile GHC from the CVS sources in the speceval_2
| branch.  I am reporting this error out of sheer obedience ;-)
| 
| So I guess there are some tricks required to compile this branch.
| 
| --Andreas
| 
| BEGIN OUTPUT
| 
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| ==fptools== make all -wr;
|   in /home/abel/cover/speceval_2/build/libraries/base
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -H32m -O0 -W -fno-warn-unused-matches
| -fwarn-unused-imports -lbfd -liberty -fglasgow-exts -cpp -Iinclude
| -#include HsBase.h -funbox-strict-fields -package-name base
-dcore-lint
| -W -fno-warn-unused-matches -fwarn-unused-imports -keep-hc-files
-c
| GHC/Base.lhs -o GHC/Base.o  -ohi GHC/Base.hi
| NOTE: Simplifier still going after 4 iterations; bailing out.
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange unpack{-s1UL*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange unpack{-s1UL*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange unpack{-s1UL*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange unpack{-s1UL*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange unpack{-s1XE*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange unpack{-s1XX*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange ys{-s25B*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange unpack{-s28W*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange ys{-s2ab*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange xs{-s2at*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange xs{-s2aE*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange ys{-s2aX*-}
| nukeVolatileBinds: strange ys{-s2bd*-}
| ghc-5.05: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 5.05):
|          Optimistic Evaluation does not currently support native code
| generation
|      Use -fvia-C or -O
| 
| Please report it as a compiler bug to
glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org,
| or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/.
| 
| 
| make[2]: *** [GHC/Base.o] Error 1
| make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/abel/cover/speceval_2/build/libraries'
| make: *** [build] Error 1
| 
| END OUTPUT
| 
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