6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

[Simon Marlow]

Gregory Wright wrote:

> 
> I built HEAD and ran ghc-regress last week.  It looks like the  compiler 
> crashes are almost
> all gone.  There are still 132 unexpected failures, but only one  
> compiler crash.

Are these crashes all for the threaded2 way?  We'll probably need to disable SMP 
on PPC for the 6.6 release, because I'm fairly sure it doesn't work (the 
workarounds we need for the weaker memory ordering on PPC aren't implemented). 
Ian is planning to sort this out before the release.

Cheers,
	Simon