ghc fails "hello world" on ppc

[frederik at ugcs.caltech.edu]

I forgot to say that the version is 6.0.1.

So... can anyone else reproduce this? Is there a stable version of the
compiler which I should be using instead? Is there anything I can do
to help fix this bug?

frederik at ugcs.caltech.edu writes:

> $ uname -a
> Linux fly 2.4.19-quiet #10 Tue Jan 12 17:02:50 PST 1904 ppc GNU/Linux
> $ cat > test.hs                 
> main =
>     do
>     putStr "hello\n"
>     putStr "world\n"
> $ ghc --make test.hs && ./a.out       
> Chasing modules from: test.hs
> Compiling Main             ( test.hs, ./test.o )
> Linking ...
> world
> world
>
> On my i386 machine it works correctly: 
>
> $ ghc --make test.hs && ./a.out
> Chasing modules from: test.hs
> Compiling Main             ( test.hs, ./test.o )
> Linking ...
> hello
> world
>
> Various permutations of the original program produce the same result
> on the ppc:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> import System.IO
> main =
>     do
>     hSetBuffering stdout NoBuffering
>     putStr "hello\n"
>     putStr "world\n"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> import System.IO
> main =
>     do
>     hSetBuffering stdout NoBuffering
>     putStrLn "hello"
>     putStrLn "world"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> main =
>     do
>     putStrLn "hello"
>     putStrLn "world"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> etc., except that anything with putStrLn prints
> hello
> hello
> instead of
> world
> world
>
>
> TIA.
>
> Frederik Eaton