Thanks for the report. The garbage collector is blowing the C stack, which is why the interpreter is dumping core. I've tweaked the relevant portions of the GC so as to make it tail-call friendly (to a C compiler). It makes your example run out of heap space instead, which is an improvement on existing behaviour. --sigbjorn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Iavor Diatchki" <diatchki@cse.ogi.edu> To: <hugs-bugs@haskell.org> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 23:15 Subject: hugs segfaults
hello,
the following piece of code seems to crash hugs.
--------------------------------------------------------------- module Main where
inf = foldl (+) 0 (repeat 1)
main :: IO () main = putStrLn $ show inf ---------------------------------------------------------------
here is what happens:
[diatchki@localhost modules]$ hugs -h4M hugsBug.hs __ __ __ __ ____ ___ _________________________________________ || || || || || || ||__ Hugs 98: Based on the Haskell 98 standard ||___|| ||__|| ||__|| __|| Copyright (c) 1994-2001 ||---|| ___|| World Wide Web: http://haskell.org/hugs || || Report bugs to: hugs-bugs@haskell.org || || Version: February 2001 _________________________________________
Haskell 98 mode: Restart with command line option -98 to enable extensions
Reading file "/usr/share/hugs/lib/Prelude.hs": Reading file "hugsBug.hs":
Hugs session for: /usr/share/hugs/lib/Prelude.hs hugsBug.hs Type :? for help Main> main Segmentation fault (core dumped) [diatchki@localhost modules]$
i tried it using the feb 2001 release of hugs on a linux machine (mandrake 8.0 distribution). the machine is an athlon 750 with 128Mb of RAM.
bye iavor
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