MacOS X / PowerPC

[Gregory Wright]

Hi Simon,

On Jul 7, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:

> Gregory Wright wrote:
>
>> I followed the instruction in DebuggingGhcCrashes, and the
>> instructions in the ghc commentary for building an rts with debugging
>> and symbols.  (Please let me know if there are any mistakes in
>> these instructions that you know of!)
>> The crash seems to always happen eventually, but I do not have
>> a simple case that reproduces it quickly.  Gdb's traceback  
>> doesn't  give anything
>> immediately useful, so I assume that the crash is in haskell code,  
>> not
>> in C.  The not-always-reproducible nature of the bug suggests
>> deferencing a pointer into uninitialized memory.
>> Both 6.4.2 and HEAD show the problem on OS X.   It can be avoided by
>> disabling the threaded rts, but that is not acceptable solution.
>
> This is a good datapoint, because it probably rules out much of the  
> threaded RTS code in the RTS itself, which has changed  
> significantly between 6.4.x and HEAD.
>

A quick question: does the darcs repository have go back to 6.4.1?
(The place to start looking a diff of the RTS from 6.4.1, which worked,
and 6.4.2 or HEAD, which doesn't).

>> If I am to take a few deep breaths and dive back into the problem,
>> which branch should I use, 6.4.x or HEAD?
>
> No preference, since it's probably the same bug in both.  Use  
> whatever's easiest for you.
>

I'll work with HEAD.

Best Wishes,
Greg


> Cheers,
> 	Simon