Expand list of GhcRTSWays to enable use of stack trace in parallel programs
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ghc (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I noticed that Ubuntu, as well as Debian and original packages come without some variants of threaded debugging binaries.
A recent change added of printing a stack trace with -xc option requires using both -ticky and profiling compile options,
which in turn forces program to be compiled in a -debug RTS way.
Since stack trace looks like indispensable debugging tool, and convenient parallelization is strength of Haskell,
I wonder is there any remaining reason to leave beginners with a cryptic error message
when they try to debug a parallel or threaded application, and want to take advantage of stack trace?
The resulting ghc-prof package would be increased by less than 1%.
Here is a patch for Ubuntu/Debian GHC 7.4.2 package, as well as upstream.
| Michał J. Gajda (mgajda) wrote | #1 |
| Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote | #2 |
| tags: | added: patch |
| Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote | #3 |
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