#5071: GHCi crashes on large alloca/allocaBytes requests
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.0.3
Keywords: | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown
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Comment(by simonmar):
Replying to [comment:3 chak]:
> I would suggest to make the libraries comply with the Haskell standard.
Raising an exception instead of returning a `nullPtr` will break all code
that is written against the standard.
Have you seen any code that actually checks for `nullPtr`? I haven't. I
think we made a mistake in the standard here. In fact, by changing
`alloca` to raise an exception I think we'll be ''fixing'' a lot of broken
code!
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5071#comment:4>
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