[m-dev.] diff: oct 6 mercury meeting minutes
Peter Ross
petdr at miscrit.be
Wed Oct 11 22:24:06 AEDT 2000
Hi,
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Add the minutes for the Mercury meeting of Oct 6 2000.
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+<pre>
+Minutes of the Mercury meeting
+Fri Oct 6th, 3:15pm to 4:40pm.
+
+Attendees:
+ David Jeffery <dgj>
+ David Overton <dmo>
+ Mark Brown <dougl>
+ Zoltan Somogyi <zs>
+ Tyson Dowd <trd>
+ Fergus Henderson <fjh>
+ Kevin Glynn <keving>
+ Peter Stuckey <pjs> (for most of the meeting)
+
+1. Progress reports.
+
+ We went around the table, with each person in turn discussing what
+ they had been working on recently and/or what they were planning
+ to work on.
+
+ David Jeffery <dgj>:
+ - Has been working on HAL stuff, and on merging the changes
+ on the HAL branch (`no_alias') of the cvs repository back
+ into the main branch.
+ - Has been working on a paper on existential types (with fjh).
+
+ Zoltan Somogyi <zs>:
+ Has been working with Tom Conway on a paper on the
+ more accurate version of the profiler.
+
+ Has been working on handling retry from the middle of
+ procedures in mdb.
+
+ Asked whether we should include goal paths in stack traces.
+ The concensus was that since we already have the line number,
+ that is enough in most cases, but the goals paths should be
+ included if you specify the `--detailed' option to the
+ `stack' command.
+
+ Has been working on implementing retry in procedures
+ which do I/O (by tabling the results).
+
+ Fergus Henderson <fjh>:
+ Has been working on solving a GC-related bug with the
+ asm_fast.gc.par grade, and on code reviewing.
+
+ David Overton <dmo>:
+ Has finished coding higher-order support in new mode checker,
+ but hasn't tested it yet.
+
+ Mark Brown <dougl>:
+ Has been working on writing up article on declarative debugging
+ of ICFP programming contest solution.
+
+ Has been fixing a problem that someone reported where
+ if you try to use the declarative debugger on code
+ that wasn't compile with the right options, the
+ declarative debugger throws an exception rather than
+ reporting a decent error message.
+
+ Zoltan suggested that it might be good to add
+ initialization code to link all the module_layouts
+ into a single program_layout table, so that the
+ declarative debugger can tell when the program
+ includes some modules which haven't been compiled with
+ declarative debugging. Mark responded that he though
+ the declarative debugger could use the program
+ representation instead. Fergus suggested that having
+ a unified program_layout might be useful for other
+ purposes too.
+
+ There was some discussion about whether the
+ declarative debugger could debug shallowly-traced
+ code.
+
+ Tyson Dowd <trd>:
+ Has been working on responding to fjh's review
+ comments on IL back-end.
+
+ Has been working on the C++ interface.
+
+ Had been working on a .par GC-related bug with MCORBA,
+ now hand-balled that to fjh.
+
+ Kevin Glynn <keving>:
+ Mentioned `hi' interactive Hugs-like Haskell compiler
+ front-end, and asked about Mercury equivalent. We
+ discussed some potential improvements to mdb.
+
+2. Summer Studentship Projects
+
+ Zoltan had another suggestion for a summer studentship
+ project: improve/extend the pretty printer (library/pprint.m),
+ e.g. to handle depth limits, and possible also get the
+ debugger's term browser to make use of these extensions.
+
+3. Miscellaneous.
+
+ We discussed RTTI support for field names.
+</pre>
+</html>
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