[Haskell-cafe] Re: [haskell] ANNOUNCE: HNOP 0.1

[mvanier]

Yup, that's the problem all right.  Recompiling ghc with 
--with-gcc=/usr/bin/gcc-3.3 (on Debian) gives small executables.  Thanks, Ian!

What a relief -- I was running multiple instances of hnop and it was chewing up 
all of my memory ;-)  Perhaps an hnop server might be a useful future direction...

Mike

Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:45:57PM -0700, mvanier wrote:
>> I'm at a loss here.  Somehow, the SplitObjs option doesn't seem to be doing 
>> the job.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> It looks like gcc 4.1 is floating all the
> 
>      __asm__("\n__stg_split_marker:");
> 
> results to the top of the file, so the splitter sees only a number of
> empty sections followed by one large one. Results of
> 
>     echo 'module Foo where' > Foo.hs
>     for i in `seq 1 10`; do echo "foo$i = 'c'" >> Foo.hs; done
>     mkdir Foo_split
>     ghc -O -split-objs -c Foo.hs -v -keep-tmp-files
> 
> are attached, using
> 
>     $ gcc -v
>     Using built-in specs.
>     Target: i486-linux-gnu
>     Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,fortran,objc,obj-c++,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.1-1.4.2.0/jre --enable-mpfr --with-tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
>     Thread model: posix
>     gcc version 4.1.2 20060613 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-5)
> 
> Amd64 doesn't seem to be afflicted.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Ian
>