I understand that this should produce the message: ERROR: Control stack overflow
instead of just crashing, this is really annoying... I think this is an issue of very high priority. ion ----- Original Message ----- From: "ion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 7:32 PM Subject: Hugs Crashes W2K > Hug's crashes when I try to use the 'prime' function > defined below, note that the function calls prime_helper > and this is the likely cause of the crash, also note that > the reason for the crash is probable error in the > function definition. This is on Windows 2000, is there > a fix for this (apart from, "don't use windows" ;)) > as otherwise the tool is unusable? > > ion > > -- Checks whether or not a given Integer is prime > prime:: Integer -> Integer > prime x = if x==0 then error "x = 0" > else > if x<0 then prime (0-(-x)) > else prime_helper x 2 > > -- Used within 'prime' to determine if a number is prime or not > prime_helper:: Integer -> Integer -> Integer > prime_helper x y = > if ((rem) x y)==0 then error "NUMBER IS NOT PRIME" > else > if x==y-1 then error "NUMBER IS PRIME" > else prime_helper x y+1 _______________________________________________ Hugs-Bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-bugs
