patch applied (ghc): Add assertion for arity match (checks Trac #2844)

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:13:23AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Ian Lynagh wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:41:27AM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> >>=====> openFile008(normal)
> >>cd ./lib/IO && 'c:/simonpj/darcs/HEAD/ghc/stage2-inplace/ghc' 
> >>-fforce-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -Di386_unknown_mingw32  
> >>-dno-debug-output -o openFile008 openFile008.hs    
> >>>openFile008.comp.stderr 2>&1
> >>cd ./lib/IO && ulimit -n 1024;  ./openFile008    </dev/null 
> >>>openFile008.run.stdout 2>openFile008.run.stderr
> >>Timeout happened...killing process...
> >>Wrong exit code (expected 0 , actual 99 )
> >
> >If you run this by hand, does it terminate? How long does it take?
> >
> >I get this (on an idle MSYS machine):
> >
> >$ time ./openFile008 
> >real    0m8.693s
> >user    0m0.010s
> >sys     0m0.010s
> 
> Takes 14-15 seconds for me (Windows Server 2003), and 1.5 seconds on Linux. 
>   There's no Cygwin/MSYS involved, this is just slowness in the Windows 
> file system or system calls, or possibly the crt library.

But the timeout should be happening after 300 seconds, so that doesn't
explain the test failure.


Thanks
Ian