Two problems with heap profiling

[Simon Marlow]

On 17 April 2004 10:15, Sven Panne wrote:

> Stefan Reich wrote:
>> Problem 1: -hr crashes in some circumstances. [...]
> 
> No idea about this one...
> 
>> Problem 2: hp2ps doesn't work at all. [...]
> 
> That's a little bit harsh. :-) First of all it's not hp2ps, but GHC's
> RTS which has a buglet. Furthermore, it only has this problem in some
> locales. As a workaround you could try to switch your locale e.g. to
> English while running your Haskell program.
> 
> I've fixed this about a month ago in the HEAD, but it did not make
> its way into the STABLE branch. SimonM?

I rather think the bug is that we're using printf() to create the
profiling output, which is supposed to be in a fixed format.  There's
nothing stopping the Haskell program from calling setlocale() and
screwing us up again.

Anyway, I'll merge the workaround through for the time being.

Cheers,
	Simon