Looking at GHC bugs

[Simon Marlow]

On 21/10/2009 09:26, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | Are the instructions on the wiki for nofib accurate? I've not been
> | able to get it to compile, let alone run. I kinda feel like an idiot
>
> I think so. I do
> 	cd nofib
> 	make

You need to do 'make boot' before 'make'.

Cheers,
	Simon


>
> If that doesn't not work, send email to cvs-ghc
>
> Simon
>
> | :P
> |
> | On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
> |<simonpj at microsoft.com>  wrote:
> |>  Crutcher
> |>
> |>  | In the meantime, I'm looking at maybe this one:
> |>  | Int / Word / IntN / WordN are unequally optimized
> |>  | http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3055
> |>
> |>  Great.  There's bunch of other arithmetic-related bugs:
> |>    #1434
> |>    #2271
> |>    #2281
> |>    #3070
> |>    #2269
> |>
> |>  These would be good to look at as a group.  Some are assigned to Don Stewart, and
> | he may be able to give you some useful context and perhaps some code, but he's too
> | busy to fix them.  Likewise #2281 and Ian Lynagh
> |>
> |>  Simon
> |>
> |>  | -----Original Message-----
> |>  | From: Crutcher Dunnavant [mailto:crutcher at google.com]
> |>  | Sent: 16 October 2009 21:31
> |>  | To: Simon Peyton-Jones; Simon Marlow; nathanwiegand at gmail.com
> |>  | Subject: Looking at GHC bugs
> |>  |
> |>  | Hi. The last time I cycled through these, I spent some time looking at
> |>  | #698. While that's certainly an interesting bug, I don't think I'm up
> |>  | to speed on it yet, so I'm gonna shelve it until I understand more
> |>  | about the garbage collector. I'd like to actually do something useful
> |>  | in the short term.
> |>  |
> |>  | So, I'm looking at the bug list yet again, but I'd really appreciate
> |>  | being given a more focused task. You'd get some work out of me, and
> |>  | I'd learn something.
> |>  |
> |>  | In the meantime, I'm looking at maybe this one:
> |>  | Int / Word / IntN / WordN are unequally optimized
> |>  | http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3055
> |>
> |>
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