mkTopLevEnv: not interpreted main:Main

[Simon Marlow]

On 06/10/2011 16:34, Chris Smith wrote:
> Simon, thank you!  That makes sense then.
>
> I'd missed the fact that including the entire top-level scope requires
> the module to be interpreted.  I suppose the "right" thing to do would
> be to not do that; but sadly, that seems to also mean that modules
> without a 'module Foo where' only export the single symbol 'main', and I
> liked the idea of students in my class not having to write out the
> module bit explicitly.
>
> So I've been actually using interpreted code the whole time?  If so, I
> suppose there's no loss in taking out HscAsm entirely, then!

Actually you haven't been using interpreted code, but you haven't been 
getting the full top-level scope of the compiled modules.  I just tried 
a little test with ghci -fobject-code, and found that something is 
definitely amiss with this combination, so I created a ticket:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5534

Cheers,
	Simon