[nhc-bugs] hi Problems

[Brent A. Fulgham]

For a change of pace, I thought I would whine about
problems with Linux.

I built nhc98 under Debian GNU/Linux (I have a package
available if anyone is interested), and noticed that I
see the same problem that I do under Cygnus (which I
assumed was due to Cygwin's hackish nature).

Unforunately, the behavior is the same under Linux:

bfulgham@hopper:~$ hi
__   __                 __             _____________________________________
||   ||  ______    ___  || _  ____     hmake interactive (hi):
||___|| || || ||  ___|| ||/  ||__||      Copyright (c) May 2000
||---|| || || || ||__|| ||\_ ||__        http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/hmake/
||   ||                                Report bugs to: malcolm@cs.york.ac.uk
||   || Version: 2.02 (2001-02-08)     -------------------------------------
                                           ... Using compiler nhc98 ...

Type :? for help
[Std   module... /usr/include/nhc98/Prelude.hi]
Prelude> ord 'a'
[Compiling...Segmentation fault
bfulgham@hopper:~$ 

Under Cygwin this was failing in run(), but in Linux I fail under
a log() routine, which may be part of the C runtime.

I suspect this would better be studied using hat or something, but
unfortunatley I am too unfamiliar with these tools (currently)
to delve further.

Am I just using 'hi' completely incorrectly?  I must shamefully
point out that hugs handles this case correctly:

bfulgham@hopper:~$ hugs
__   __ __  __  ____   ___      _________________________________________
||   || ||  || ||  || ||__      Hugs 98: Based on the Haskell 98 standard
||___|| ||__|| ||__||  __||     Copyright (c) 1994-1999
||---||         ___||           World Wide Web: http://haskell.org/hugs
||   ||                         Report bugs to: hugs-bugs@haskell.org
||   || Version: February 2000  _________________________________________

Haskell 98 mode: Restart with command line option -98 to enable extensions

Reading file "/usr/share/hugs98/lib/Prelude.hs":
                   
Hugs session for:
/usr/share/hugs98/lib/Prelude.hs
Type :? for help
Prelude> ord 'a'
97
Prelude> 
		   
Thanks!

-Brent