#5071: GHCi crashes on large alloca/allocaBytes requests -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: ⊥ Component: Compiler | Version: 7.0.3 Resolution: | Keywords: report- Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | impact Type of failure: None/Unknown | Architecture: Blocked By: | Unknown/Multiple Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by thomie): * keywords: => report-impact Comment: Quoting [comment:4 comment:4]:

I think we made a mistake in the standard here. In fact, by changing `alloca` to raise an exception I think we'll be ''fixing'' a lot of broken code!

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