We're trying to spend some cycles pushing on Safe Haskell within the stackage packages. (It's looking like a slog.)

But we're running up against some basic questions regarding the core packages and Safe Haskell guarantees. The manual currently says:

Functions in the IO monad are still allowed and behave as usual.

As usual? So it is ok to segfault GHC? Elsewhere it says "in the safe language you can trust the types", and I'd always assumed that meant Safe Haskell is a type safe language, even in the IO fragment.

Was there an explicit decision to allow segfaults and memory corruption? This can happen not just with FFI calls but with uses of Ptrs within Haskell, for example the following:

```

{-# LANGUAGE Safe #-}

module Main where

import Foreign.Marshal.Alloc

import Foreign.Storable

import Foreign.Ptr

import System.Random

fn :: Ptr Int -> IO ()

fn p = do

-- This is kosher:

poke p 3

print =<< peek p

-- This should crash the system:

ix <- randomIO

pokeElemOff p ix 0xcc

main = alloca fn

```

-Ryan