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Opened Dec 26, 2011 by shelarcy@capella.freemail.ne.jp@trac-shelarcy
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Unclear documentation about .eventlog's spark information flag

Unclear documentation about .eventlog's spark information flag

GHC 7.4.1 RC 1 User's Guide just describes that -l option's p flag enable/disable sampled result and f enable/disable flag fully accurate result.

  • http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/docs/html/users_guide/runtime-control.html\#rts-eventlog

But when enabled f without enabled p flag, .eventlog file doesn't have any useful information about sparks.

$ ./ParallelTest +RTS -l-af
$ ./ParallelTest +RTS -l-pf

If f flag requires p flag, please document that or change f flag's behavior.

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Version 7.3
Type Bug
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Reference: ghc/ghc#5727