Ticky Ticky profiling

[Tim Chevalier]

On 7/31/07, Cristian Perfumo <cperfumo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!.
> I modified build.mk in order to allow Ticky-Ticky profiling (GhcLibWays=t). Now, when I try to make I get this error:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> == make way=t all;
> PWD = (the_whole_path)/ghc-6.6.1/rts
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ../compiler/ghc-inplace -H32m -O -fasm -W -fno-warn-unused-matches -fwarn-unused-imports -optc-O2 -static -I. -#include
> HCIncludes.h -fvia-C -dcmm-lint  -hisuf t_hi -hcsuf t_hc -osuf t_o -ticky -#include posix/Itimer.h  -c PrimOps.cmm -o PrimOps.t_o
> ghc-6.6.1: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
>   (GHC version 6.6.1 for i386-unknown-linux):
>
>         ToDo: tickyAllocThunk
>

Hi, Cristian--
To get ticky to work, you need the HEAD (or a recent nightly build
snapshot). If it's still not working after that, post again.

Cheers,
Tim

-- 
Tim Chevalier* catamorphism.org *Often in error, never in doubt
"More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.
One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total
extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose
correctly."--Woody Allen