I'm utterly bemused, but it seems that someone called simonpj disabled
the virtual timer in rev 1.25:
+ #if 0 /* tmp--SDM */
initialize_virtual_timer(TICK_MILLISECS);
+ #endif
and tried to blame it on me by putting my name in the comment :-)
(Simon - perhaps you copied this file out of my working tree and
committed it by mistake or something?)
/* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * $Id: RtsStartup.c,v 1.27 2000/01/14 13:17:15 hwloidl Exp $
+ * $Id: RtsStartup.c,v 1.28 2000/02/07 20:57:58 simonmar Exp $
*
* (c) The GHC Team, 1998-1999
*
/* start the ticker */
install_vtalrm_handler();
-#if 0 /* tmp--SDM */
initialize_virtual_timer(TICK_MILLISECS);
-#endif
/* start our haskell execution tasks */
#ifdef SMP