#3099: GHCi eats all my memory, even when loading a blank file
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Reporter: nccb | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: GHCi | Version: 6.10.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Testcase:
Os: Linux | Architecture: x86_64 (amd64)
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Comment (by duncan):
It's probably the bug in the gentoo version of libedit-20061103. We
patched it in the haskell overlay but it's not in the main portage version
of libedit yet I think.
If it is indeed this bug then there's not a lot that ghc can do I think.
The solution is to use a patched or later version of libedit or not use
libedit at all.
The Gentoo plan for 6.10.2 is to patch ghc to use readline. Even with the
fix for this bug, libedit is just not as usable and most Gentoo users do
not need to redistribute closed source GHC binaries so linking against
readline is fine.
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