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Commit 85b0f87a authored by Duncan Coutts's avatar Duncan Coutts Committed by Marge Bot
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Change the handling of the RTS flag --io-manager=

Now instead of it being just used on Windows to select between the WinIO
vs the MIO or Win32-legacy I/O managers, it is now used on all platforms
for selecting the I/O manager to use.

Right now it remains the case that there is only an actual choice on
Windows, but that will change later.

Document the --io-manager flag in the user guide.

This change is also reflected in the RTS flags types in the base
library. Deprecate the export of IoSubSystem from GHC.RTS.Flags with a
message to import it from GHC.IO.Subsystem.

The way the 'IoSubSystem' is detected also changes. Instead of looking
at the RTS flag, there is now a C bool global var in the RTS which gets
set on startup when the I/O manager is selected. This bool var says
whether the selected I/O manager classifies as "native" on Windows,
which in practice means the WinIO I/O manager has been selected.

Similarly, the is_io_mng_native_p RTS helper function is re-implemented
in terms of the selected I/O manager, rather than based on the RTS
flags.

We do however remove the ./configure --native-io-manager flag because
we're bringing the WinIO/MIO/Win32-legacy choice under the new general
scheme for selecting I/O managers, and that new scheme involves no
./configure time user choices, just runtime RTS flag choices.
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