Hi, On 9 August 2016 at 01:32, David Terei <davidte...@gmail.com> wrote: > I imagine in Java, that I can construct an invalid pointer in foreign > code, and then cause segfaults without the Java code having any > issues. Just guessing at this, so very interested to know how it's > prevented if I can't.
Yes, this can be done with JNI, see e.g. [1]. Additionally, by using sun.misc.Unsafe [2], one can cause segfaults even from pure Java. [1] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/safejni.pdf [2] http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/lanza/Downloads/Mast2015a.pdf _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
