Re: copyArray# bug

Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

Roman Leshchinskiy writes:

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If I'm right then I would suggest not to use copyArray# and copyMutableArray# for GHC < 7.8.

I've grepped today's

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/archive.tar

for occurences of those two primitives, and this resulted in the following matches:

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...so, are you saying, that those packages above are dangerous to use with GHC<=7.6.1?

I don't know about the other packages (it depends entirely on what kind of arrays they copy and how) but these particular functions in primitive definitely are dangerous to use. I'll release a hotfix shortly. Roman