cvs commit: fptools/ghc/rts Makefile

[Simon Marlow]

> Keith Wansbrough <Keith.Wansbrough@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote,
> 
> > > PS. The compiler loops eating memory trying to compile PrelCError
> > > and I don't know why. Reducing the list of
> > >     | errno == eWHATEVER = (WhateverError, "whatever description")
> > > below a few elements lets it pass, removing -O too, so 
> perhaps some
> > > code generation bug for the implementation of large case 
> constructs.
> > 
> > This is a known bug... just remove -O for now.  The allocator can't
> > allocate single blocks over a certain size, but it just 
> keeps retrying
> > in an infinite loop.  It's on the Official GHC Whiteboard, but has
> > been for about a year now...  (it bites on 
> prelude/PrimOps.lhs if you
> > have -prof on, for example).
> 
> How about putting it into the bug tracker?

It is: bug Id #110340.  Admittedly it's not immediately obvious from the
bug description that this is the same bug :)

Cheers,
	Simon