I also see a segfault on Windows XP SP2 and GHC 6.10.1, very quick so I'm fairly sure it's not memory.
 
I agree this should be a bug report.
 

From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Luke Palmer
Sent: 19 March 2009 05:00
To: Zachary Turner
Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Crash in GHCI - what is the correct behavior here?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Zachary Turner <divisortheory@gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding the "black hole detection", is GHCI supposed to exit after printing <loop>?  Or is just supposed to print <loop> then return to a GHCI prompt?  Here's a transcript:

C:\Documents and Settings\Zach>ghci
GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Prelude> let f x = let p = x*x in let p = x*p in p
Prelude> f 7

C:\Documents and Settings\Zach>

Hmm, that's weird.  I note that here on linux, this expression gobbles up memory like nobody's business.  Maybe it's being killed for eating too much?  (I dunno)

Luke


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