Re: [Haskell-cafe] Breaking ghci

2009-06-30 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Günther Schmidt wrote: ...*I* have managed to write code that ghc is not even able to compile due to exhausting virtual memory! Top that! Good work Günther! Joe Fredette wrote: Code or it didn't happen. :) Yes, how did you do it? Did it involve very large literals? GHC is known to have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Breaking ghci

2009-06-30 Thread Guenther Schmidt
Hi guys, actually it involved haskelldb and a table that had 183 columns. In order to specify the table with its 183 columns I had to increase the context-stack slightly from 20 to a mere 190. Günther BTW there is one thing I find a bit unfortunate in otherwise flawless haskelldb, each

[Haskell-cafe] Breaking ghci

2009-06-29 Thread GüŸnther Schmidt
Hi folks, I would like to announce that I have not merely managed to make the RTS choke during runtime on stack overflows like lesser programmers, no, *I* have managed to write code that ghc is not even able to compile due to exhausting virtual memory! Top that! Günther

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Breaking ghci

2009-06-29 Thread Joe Fredette
Code or it didn't happen. :) GüŸnther Schmidt wrote: Hi folks, I would like to announce that I have not merely managed to make the RTS choke during runtime on stack overflows like lesser programmers, no, *I* have managed to write code that ghc is not even able to compile due to exhausting