#8573: "evacuate: strange closure type 0" when creating large array -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: nad | Owner: rwbarton Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime System | Version: 7.6.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Linux | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: Runtime crash | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by bgamari): With GHC HEAD I get, {{{ $ ghc --make hi.hs -O -main-is strangeClosureType [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( hi.hs, hi.o ) Linking hi ... $ ./hi 2111752566 hi: Out of memory }}} rwbarton, I suppose your thought was that the primop implementations should also do their own integer overflow checks? I'm not entirely convinced that is necessary. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8573#comment:5 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler