gcc version to use on sparc/solaris

On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 21:06 +1100, Ben Lippmeier wrote: > I'm running into some huge compile times that I'm hoping someone will > have some suggestions about. When compiling Parser.hs the intermediate > .hc file is 4MB big, and is taking GCC 4.2.1 more than 2 hours to get > through. > > Another attempted compile of GHC 6.8.3 is stuck on > libraries/template-haskell/Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.hs with a 4MB > intermediate .hc file. Here is what I've discovered... I built four versions of gcc and used them to build ghc-6.8.3. I selected the last point release of the last four major gcc releases: gcc-4.0.4 gcc-4.1.2 gcc-4.2.4 gcc-4.3.2 Summary: gcc-4.0.4 or gcc-4.1.2 seems to be the best choice at the moment for ghc on sparc/solaris. gcc-4.0.4 ========= This version passes all expected tests on the gcc testsuite. Using it to build ghc-6.8.3 works fine and it does not take too long. The ghc testsuite result looks like: 2128 total tests, which gave rise to 8040 test cases, of which 1 caused framework failures 1561 were skipped 6130 expected passes 281 expected failures 0 unexpected passes 48 unexpected failures Unexpected failures: 1861(normal,optc,hpc,profc,threaded1,threaded2) barton-mangler-bug(normal,hpc,threaded1) cabal01(normal) conc042(threaded2) conc043(threaded2) conc044(threaded2) conc045(threaded2) conflicting_flags(normal) enum01(hpc) ffi017(ghci) ffi019(normal,optc,hpc,profc,ghci,threaded1,threaded2) ghciprog004(normal) hClose002(normal,optc,hpc,profc,ghci,threaded1,threaded2) joao-circular(normal,optc,hpc,profc,threaded1,threaded2) num012(normal,optc,hpc,profc,ghci,threaded1,threaded2) seward-space-leak(ghci) testblockalloc(normal,threaded1) Some fail in fairly simple ways: cabal01 fails because Solaris tar does not support -C conflicting_flags fails due to a difference in output: -ghc: cannot use `-V' with `--print-libdir' +ghc-6.8.3: cannot use `-V' with `--print-libdir' hClose002 fails with a different error: -Left hClose: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor) +Left hClose: invalid argument (Bad file number) 1861 fails because ghc uses C99 INFINITY macro without using C99 and Solaris header files are more strict about standards than other systems. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2929 Some look a bit more scary: testblockalloc fails with "out of memory (requested 8388608 bytes)" num012 produces different output: --2147483648 +2147483647 looks like overflow, so definitely something wrong. A number of tests timeout: seward-space-leak(ghci) joao-circular(all) barton-mangler-bug(all) A few tests get bus errors: conc042, conc043, conc044, conc045 ghciprog004 ffi019(all) gcc-4.1.2 ========= This version passes all expected tests on the gcc testsuite. Using it to build ghc-6.8.3 works fine and it does not take too long. The ghc testsuite result looks like: 2128 total tests, which gave rise to 8040 test cases, of which 1 caused framework failures 1561 were skipped 6125 expected passes 281 expected failures 0 unexpected passes 49 unexpected failures Unexpected failures: 1861(normal,optc,hpc,profc,threaded1,threaded2) barton-mangler-bug(normal,optc,hpc,threaded1,threaded2) cabal01(normal) conc042(threaded2) conc043(threaded2) conc044(threaded2) conc045(threaded2) conflicting_flags(normal) ffi017(ghci) ffi019(normal,optc,hpc,profc,ghci,threaded1,threaded2) ghciprog004(normal) hClose002(normal,optc,hpc,profc,ghci,threaded1,threaded2) joao-circular(normal,optc,hpc,profc,threaded1,threaded2) num012(normal,optc,hpc,profc,ghci,threaded1,threaded2) seward-space-leak(ghci) testblockalloc(normal,threaded1) The only difference is that enum01(hpc) does not fail and barton-mangler-bug fails in two more ways (optc, threaded2) gcc-4.2.4 ========= This fails 4 tests on the gcc testsuite. This is the version that gives us massive compile times for larger .hc files (8 hours+ for Syntax.hc). I thought that using -fno-unit-at-a-time would help but ghc is already using that so no luck. It does eventually build but takes nearly 2 days. No testsuite results yet. I'm not sure I can be bothered. gcc-4.3.2 ========= This fails 50 tests on the gcc testsuite. Does not work with ghc-6.8.3 at all, presumably due to the evil mangler. This manifests itself as ./configure failing when it tries to compile and run utils/pwd/pwd: checking for path to top of build tree... /tmp/ghc15055_0/ghc15055_0.hc: In function 'sqD_ret': /tmp/ghc15055_0/ghc15055_0.hc:95:0: note: if this code is reached, the program will abort [...] /tmp/ghc15055_0/ghc15055_0.hc: In function '__stginit_Main': /tmp/ghc15055_0/ghc15055_0.hc:750:0: note: if this code is reached, the program will abort configure: error: cannot determine current directory Indeed it does abort: $ utils/pwd/pwd Illegal Instruction (core dumped) Duncan