Help: Windows ghc profiler errors

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:10:16 -0000


> I want to profile my Haskell program (it solves the Queens and Knights
> problem stated here:=20
> http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/programmers.php ).
> I'm compiling with GHC 5.04.1 under Windows NT using the=20
> following command
> line (as per the Users Guide):
>=20
> >ghc -prof -auto-all -o queens --make Main
>=20
>=20
> When I run the program with the following command lines I get:
>=20
> >queens
> queens: fatal error: evacuate: strange closure type 1696

Profiling is broken on Windows in 5.04.1.  I think we know what the
problem is, and it will be working again in 5.04.2.  Sorry about that.

Cheers,
	Simon