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The '--' argument disables any further +RTS ... -RTS processing on the
command line.

schemeR_wrk: look through tyapps when spotting top-level nullary
constructor uses.  Fixes bug reported by Mark Tehver:
<<loop>> in GHC 5.01 "Zarjaz"

Don't use packString for GHC > 5.00

Update the hc-build script to the recipe I'm using for the FreeBSD
package build.  The main improvement is that after running this script
the resulting tree should be ready for a 'make install' from the top
level.  This is highly fragile and relies on touching various files to
avoid having to recompile anything that will fail :-)

The FreeBSD package that this derives from is well tested, but I
haven't tested the script itself yet.

Added SysTools.Option, which lets you identify what are
file-path like options to SysTool.run<Foo>.

Using this, we can now precisely control when to transform
filepaths into a host-compatible format (i.e., we can DOSify
just the right bits under Win32).

Fix bug with +RTS -P

Test for identifiers containing non-ASCII characters.

Remove UnsafeCString (normal CString is fast enough now).

Make some foreign imports "unsafe".

Fix another place where the maxHeapSize is set to the
heapSizeSuggestion, now that maxHeapSize == 0 indicates "unbounded".

Fix an assertion: "large" objects may not necessarily start on a block
boundary, but the only ones that are allowed not to are ByteArrays.

Fix Solaris borkage.  Sigh.

Claim that MUT_CONS closures have 1 pointer and 1 non-pointer field,
so that the default threading code in GCCompact works for them (it
doesn't thread the mut_link field).  This also matches MUT_VARs, so
it's more consistent.

Thread the mut_once_list properly, once, before we start compacting.
Previously we tried to do it during the first threading phase, but we
missing some pointers (namely IND_STATIC objects which are only
reachable via the mut_once list).

added pointer to ghc/rts/Adjustor.c, which has some good comments.

add missing symbol to RTS_SYMBOLS

Added SimonM's explanation about f.e.d. stubs.

Remember to initialise stp->bitmap.  Avoids a potential segfault with +RTS -c.

Initialise n_large_blocks and n_scavenged_large_blocks.

Oops, only ASCII alphanumeric characters are allowed to be used
unencoded in C identifiers, but Char.isAlphaNum includes ISO-8851
alphanumeric characters.

Disable debugging machinery which skeaked in in the last commit.

C-side FFI support for Byte/Ptr arrays.

Change "dunno, mate" into something a bit more helpful.

Add support for passing ptr/byte arrays to C.

Fix a bug in gcStablePtrTable().

Disable use of finalisers attached to UnlinkedBCOs, since finalisers
attached to non-atomic objects may run too early :-(

Attach finaliser for malloc'd blocks to the UnlinkedBCOs, not to
linked really-really-really BCOs.  This is because an unlinked BCO
may be copied many times to generated LinkedBCOs before it dies.
Attaching finalisers to linked BCOs could mean multiple free()s on
the same address.

Define allocaBytes in terms of the new pinned ByteArray primitives.
This version is over 6 times faster than the old version using
malloc/free.

update expected output

Remove parse error.  This test actually doesn't work!

Fix parse error and remove ^Ms (an untested test?)

update expected output

semantics of take, drop and splitAt have changed

update expected output

Flag tweaks: +RTS -c now means "enable compaction all the time"
(previously there was no way to do this *and* run without a maximum
heap size).

The heuristics for determining the generation sizes are also slightly
better now.

Use the bytecode generator's monad to keep track of the malloc'd blocks
created for each BCO.  Eventually use this info to generate a finaliser
which is tied to the real, linked BCO

wibble

oops, forgot to thread the link and global_link fields of a large
TSO.  Fixes a potential crash with the compacting collector.

update expected output

lib specifications aren't allowed any more

[ merge into new test suite ]