Re: [Haskell-cafe] Crash in GHCI - what is the correct behavior here?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Zachary Turner 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