On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Edward Z. Yang <ezy...@mit.edu> wrote: > stg_newArrayzh in rts/PrimOps.cmm doesn't appear to give any indication, > so this might be a good patch to add. But I'm curious: what would > allocating Array#s of size 0 do? Null pointers? That sounds dangerous...
I would imagine that a zero sized array would be a StgArrPtrs header with its size field set to 0. It's not a very useful thing to have, I admit. If someone (Simon?) can confirm that we don't intend to support zero-length array I'll push a patch that adds a comment. Johan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
