[Haskell-cafe] 64-bit vs 32-bit haskell platform on Mac: misleading notice on Platform website?

[Lyndon Maydwell]

Carter:

Not yet.

I'll get round to it once I'm done with with an Agda presentation I'm
working on. Until then I can't afford to break my environment.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Carter Schonwald
<carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
> do these problems also happen if your'e using the glut backend? (because if
> its only glfw that has problems, then its something wrong in the ffi code,
> but if its both, that suggests there may be some sort of systematic
> problem?)
>
> @Lyndon, that sounds like a bug... especially since scotty seems to have no
> C code in package... have you filed a bug report with the maintainers thats
> reproducible?
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Lyndon Maydwell <maydwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm experiencing the same issues with compiled 64 bit working
>> correctly, but interpreted causing all sorts of issues with Scotty.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Christiaan Baaij
>> <christiaan.baaij at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The behaviour seems to differ between versions of OS X.
>> >
>> > A student has OS X 10.8 installed and is observing the described
>> > behaviour:
>> > 32-bit: interpreted and compiled work correctly
>> > 64-bit: only compiled code works correctly
>> >
>> > However, I have OS X 10.6, and I'm observing the following behaviour:
>> > 32-bit: interpreted and compiled code work correctly
>> > 64-bit: interpreted and compiled code work correctly
>> >
>> > To test:
>> > cabal install gloss --flags="-GLUT GLFW"
>> > cabal unpack gloss-examples
>> > cd <unpacked-folder>/picture/GameEvent
>> > ghci -fno-ghci-sandbox Main.hs
>> > main
>> >
>> > I'll try to find another OS X 10.8 install (I don't want to upgrade) and
>> > see if the behaviour still emerges.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sep 26, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
>> >
>> >> really? does the 64 bit code work correctly when compiled?
>> >> if the compiled version works correctly, could you post a repo of some
>> >> example codlets that *should work* on ghc 7.6 so i can sort out if its
>> >> fixable.   There were some similar problems with gtk / cairo for a while on
>> >> OS X, and i was able to sort out reproducible instructions for getting
>> >> things to work in that case.
>> >
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