Re: The Data.Array.* hierarchy is unsafe (or, Segfaulting for fun and profit)

Samuel Bronson wrote:

On 12/5/06, Nils Anders Danielsson wrote:

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[Stuff about overflow and Ix laws]

But, will you ever encounter such overflows in using an array? I suppose you might if you tried to make one larger than the address space...

Problems in this area have been reported as GHC bugs several times, see for example: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/229 Cheers, Simon