Using the ghc-api to run more than one instance of ghc simultaneously

[Daniel Gorín]

On Jul 13, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Marc Weber wrote:

>> Yes, it is a known limitation.  It ought to be documented somewhere.
>>
>> There are two problems:
>>
>>  1. GHC is not thread-safe.  [...]
>>
>>  2. There is only one RTS linker with a single symbol table.  [...]
>
> Are there already bug tracker items for these two problems?
> I've tried finding them but didn't succeed. This would be a fast way  
> to
> document this issue even if its unlikely to be fixed soon.
>
> Marc Weber

For the record, now there are:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3372
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3373

Daniel