#5550: GHC infinite loop when compiling vector ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: simonpj | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: 7.6.2 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.2.1 Keywords: | Os: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase: Blockedby: | Blocking: Related: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by amos.robinson@…): commit 81d55a9ec28d9d7c8b1492516ebd58c5ff90c0e8 {{{ Author: Amos Robinson <amos.robinson@gmail.com> Date: Thu Mar 28 12:37:42 2013 +1100 Fix non-termination of SpecConstr (see #5550). ForceSpecConstr will now only specialise recursive types a finite number of times. There is a new option -fspec-constr-recursive, with a default value of 3. compiler/main/DynFlags.hs | 4 ++ compiler/specialise/SpecConstr.lhs | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5550#comment:27> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler