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by Ben Gaster :: Rate this Message:

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Hello

 

Having read the papers on Nested Data Parallelism in the Haskell I wanted to play around with the de-sugared implementation in the GHC library NDP. I have built GHC from source, on RHE5, and then installed the NDP library from the tar ball. Following the build instructions in the README I got to building the library which resulted in the following error being reported:

 

ghc-6-6.1: combination not supported: Threaded/Profiling

 

This seems to be down to the fact that -prof and -threaded have been specified on a particular build line, although I emit not to be completely sure about this.

 

Looking through the GHC page on its SMP support it seems to imply that the option -threaded is not needed when building code, rather when linking a parallel program, but it is unclear if this is the case when building a library such as NDP.

 

Having scanned through the GHC source tree it seems that -prof is referenced in numerous places such that it would be a bit of a pain to have to remove these over removing the single reference to -threaded in the ndp.mk file.

 

Thanks for any help that you can provide on this.

 

Many Regards,

 

Ben

Benedict R. Gaster
S/W Architecture Team Lead
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Re: combination not supported: Threaded/Profiling when building NDP library

by shelarcy :: Rate this Message:

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Hello Ben,

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:21:35 +0900, Ben Gaster <brg@...> wrote:

> Having read the papers on Nested Data Parallelism in the Haskell I
> wanted to play around with the de-sugared implementation in the GHC
> library NDP. I have built GHC from source, on RHE5, and then installed
> the NDP library from the tar ball. Following the build instructions in
> the README I got to building the library which resulted in the following
> error being reported:
>
>
> ghc-6-6.1: combination not supported: Threaded/Profiling
>
>This seems to be down to the fact that -prof and -threaded have been
> specified on a particular build line, although I emit not to be
> completely sure about this.

If you want just testing ndp package, I think you can install with cabal
instead of README file way.

And you problem come from current rts' implemantion.
Current rts' code cause the problem when using -prof and -threaded combination.
So GHC's developper team omit this option to avoid problem by that
in ghc 6.6.x release phase.

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/886

If you want to use their combination, please vote above Ticket #886
by adding your e-mail address to 'cc' field and commebt your problem,
instead of just sending e-mail to this mailing-list.

Because GHC's team decides task priority by using this field and comment.

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/2007-July/008873.html


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RE: combination not supported: Threaded/Profiling when building NDP library

by Ben Gaster :: Rate this Message:

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H Shelarcy,

Thanks for your reply.

I have removed the -threaded when building the library and now
everything builds correctly and the examples are all working. However, I
would like to explore porting the library to use a small FFI library
which will allow exporting flattened data parallel operations to a
vector array processor that I'm working with. With this in mind I wanted
to check that as this the library is not concerned with SMP and thus I
will not expect the ported version of NDP to call GHC's SMP concurrency
primitives, as I believe it does at the moment, then I need not be
concerned with this option not being enabled, even at link time?

Regards,

Ben

Benedict R. Gaster
S/W Architecture Team Lead
ClearSpeed Technology Plc
3110 Great Western Court
Hunts Ground Road
Stoke Gifford
Bristol
BS34 8HP
Phone: + 44 117 3172016
Fax: + 44 117 3172002
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: shelarcy [mailto:shelarcy@...]
> Sent: 20 September 2007 10:31
> To: Ben Gaster
> Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@...
> Subject: Re: combination not supported: Threaded/Profiling when
> building NDP library
>
> Hello Ben,
>
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:21:35 +0900, Ben Gaster <brg@...>
> wrote:
> > Having read the papers on Nested Data Parallelism in the Haskell I
> > wanted to play around with the de-sugared implementation in the GHC
> > library NDP. I have built GHC from source, on RHE5, and then
> installed
> > the NDP library from the tar ball. Following the build instructions
> in
> > the README I got to building the library which resulted in the
> following
> > error being reported:
> >
> >
> > ghc-6-6.1: combination not supported: Threaded/Profiling
> >
> >This seems to be down to the fact that -prof and -threaded have been
> > specified on a particular build line, although I emit not to be
> > completely sure about this.
>
> If you want just testing ndp package, I think you can install with
> cabal
> instead of README file way.
>
> And you problem come from current rts' implemantion.
> Current rts' code cause the problem when using -prof and -threaded
> combination.
> So GHC's developper team omit this option to avoid problem by that
> in ghc 6.6.x release phase.
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/886
>
> If you want to use their combination, please vote above Ticket #886
> by adding your e-mail address to 'cc' field and commebt your problem,
> instead of just sending e-mail to this mailing-list.
>
> Because GHC's team decides task priority by using this field and
> comment.
>
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/2007-
> July/008873.html
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> --
> shelarcy <shelarcy    hotmail.co.jp>
> http://page.freett.com/shelarcy/

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