#4505: Segmentation fault on long input (list of pairs) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: cathper | Owner: simonmar Type: bug | Status: new Priority: highest | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.0.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Segmentation Operating System: Linux | fault, segfault, long input Type of failure: Runtime | Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: 4258 Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by simonmar): The code that implements the runtime check is still in place, it's only the compile-time check that we lost. So you don't get a segfault, but you do get a runtime failure: {{{ barf("allocation of %ld bytes too large (GHC should have complained at compile-time)", (long)cap->r.rHpAlloc); }}} @snoyberg: do you see this? Given this, I don't think it's worth holding up 7.8.4. We wouldn't be fixing the bug, only moving the failure to compile-time. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4505#comment:28 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler