Too many local registers...

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

We are working on a substantial re-engineering of GHC's code generation, so this problem will eventually go away.  But think "2008" not "Christmas 2007".  Meanwhile does -fasm work?

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
| Duncan Coutts
| Sent: 31 October 2007 23:37
| To: Cristian Perfumo
| Cc: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Too many local registers...
|
| On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:40 +0100, Cristian Perfumo wrote:
| > Hi,
| > I did some modifications to GHC in order to read hardware counters.
| > Many programs are compiled successfully, but with one of them, I have
| > a problem:
| >
| > Too many local registers allocated by gcc at .../ghc-
| > 6.6.1-modified/driver/mangler/ghc-asm line 1602, <INASM> line 304643.
| >
| > It's ghc 6.6.1 on an Itanium processor.
|
| I never found a satisfactory answer. On IA64 we just hope that ghc
| generates C code that does not turn into object code that uses too many
| variables. We tried playing with gcc flags to make it only use the
| limited number of registers but could not make it work. The only
| workarounds I know of are to use less aggressive optimisation, both in
| ghc and gcc, so try with -optc-O rather than -optc-O2 and try -O0 rather
| than -O.
|
| Duncan
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