#7655: 7.6.2 Segmentation Fault/Bus Error in large exponentation -------------------------------+---------------------------------- Reporter: Doug310 | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: GHCi | Version: 7.8.1-rc1 Resolution: | Keywords: exponentiation Operating System: MacOS X | Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) Type of failure: GHCi crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: -------------------------------+---------------------------------- Comment (by carter): my ghc build is a bindist here https://github.com/cartazio/ghc/releases/tag/carters-build-7.8-preRC1 from commit 12853f4dd3950b7bf9241f7394cc2f40d0b90c9a it may be related to that. heres my settings file {{{ carter ~ ยป ghc --info [("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","gcc-4.8") ,("C compiler flags"," -m64 -fno-stack-protector") ,("C compiler link flags"," -m64") ,("ld command","/usr/bin/ld") ,("ld flags"," -arch x86_64") ,("ld supports compact unwind","YES") ,("ld supports build-id","NO") ,("ld supports filelist","YES") ,("ld is GNU ld","NO") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","clqs") ,("ar supports at file","NO") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("libtool command","libtool") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSDarwin") ,("target arch","ArchX86_64") ,("target word size","8") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","False") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","True") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("LLVM llc command","/usr/local/bin/llc-3.4") ,("LLVM opt command","/usr/local/bin/opt-3.4") ,("Project version","7.8.20140130") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","2") ,("Build platform","x86_64-apple-darwin") ,("Host platform","x86_64-apple-darwin") ,("Target platform","x86_64-apple-darwin") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","YES") ,("Have native code generator","YES") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l dyn debug_dyn thr_dyn thr_debug_dyn l_dyn thr_l_dyn") ,("Support dynamic-too","YES") ,("Support parallel --make","YES") ,("Dynamic by default","NO") ,("GHC Dynamic","YES") ,("Leading underscore","YES") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.8.20140130") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/local/lib/ghc-7.8.20140130/package.conf.d") ] }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7655#comment:15 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler