Odd behavior of ncurses with -threaded

Donn Cave donn at avvanta.com
Thu Nov 11 22:32:33 EST 2010


Quoth Simon Hengel <simon.hengel at wiktory.org>,
>> >     ghc --make -threaded -lcurses Main.hs
>> 
>> I bet, if you switch off the barrage of thread scheduling SIGALRMs,
>>   +RTS -V0 -RTS , it will work like it's supposed to.
>
> That helped, thanks!

Great, but, beware - I am not fully informed on what it does, beyond
the SIGALRM difference.  I run my own application this way without
apparent serious harm, but it could be failing to reclaim memory for
example, due to missed garbage collections.

	Donn Cave, donn at avvanta.com


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