[Haskell-cafe] GDB and ticks

[Sylvain Henry]

The timer isn't only used for profiling, it is used for scheduling too. 
You can disable it with `+RTS -V0` (cf 
https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/debug-info.html#tutorial)

On 18/10/2021 12:47, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
> I am stepping through a Haskell program using the GNU debugger GDB and 
> see function calls to handle_tick, handleProfTick, stopTicker all over 
> the place. It sounds like they would manage profiling, but I compiled 
> the executable without profiling.
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