Problem with handles in GHC from CVS

[John Meacham]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:22:55PM -0500, Wolfgang Thaller wrote:
> >The temporary file is
> >created but it is empty. It seems like the stdout/stderr handles are
> >flushed in GHC.TopHandler.runMainIO but only if the program terminates
> >without exception.
> 
> Should be fixed now; when terminating using exitWith, the handles are 
> now flushed.
> Note that they are still not flushed for other exceptions.

It seems they should always be flushed. certainly if a program fails via
'fail' in IO or 'error' as these are common ways for programs to report
an error and losing output would definitly be counter intuitive and make
it quite tricky to debug. especially when you can't flush stdout before
calling error. I would think it should flush all buffers on any type of
exit.

On a another note relating to errors, when profiling is turned on and
you write any profiling data out, programs always return a 'success'
error code no matter how they quit. It would also be nice to get partial
profiling data if one aborts the program early with ^C. 
        John

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