#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:5 guest]:
> I think for now in the programs I write I'll use `malloc` and avoid
`alloca`, as a workaround for this bug.
Note that `malloc` is ''much'' slower than `alloca`.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5071#comment:7>
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