* Mikhail Glushenkov: > 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.
You can also bring the JVM into an unstable state by triggering a VirtualMachineError, basically an out-of-memory condition, a stack overflow, or any other unrecoverable error. You can also exhaust limited resources such as file descriptors pretty easily. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
