Simon Marlow <[email protected]> writes: > The raise closure is declared to be a THUNK: > > https://phabricator.haskell.org/diffusion/GHC/browse/master/rts/Exception.cmm;60e29dc2611f5c1a01cfd9a870841927847a7b74$424 > > Another example of this is when an asynchronous exception is thrown, and we > update all the thunks/BLACKHOLEs pointed to by the update frames to point > to new thunks (actually AP_STACK closures) representing the frozen state of > evaluation of those thunks. For this, see rts/RaiseAsync.c. > This thread has answered a number of interesting questions. It would be a shame if these answers vanished into the abyss of the ghc-devs archives.
Omer, do you think you could make sure that the discussion here is summarized in a Note (or ensure that the relevant notes reference one another, if they already exist)? Cheers, - Ben
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