Re: Stack overflow weirdness

2011-01-28 Thread Simon Marlow
On 27/01/2011 11:45, Daniel Fischer wrote: While tuning some code, the test programme suddenly started producing stack overflows. Reverting the code to a previous version did not revert that behaviour, code that previously produced a well-behaved binary now produced stack overflowing ones. But

Re: Stack overflow weirdness

2011-01-28 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Friday 28 January 2011 11:40:33, Simon Marlow wrote: I think you may have had an encounter with this bug:    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4924 That seems not unlikely. the offending Main contained a couple of near- identical loops, and that bug doesn't reliably occur (I

Stack overflow weirdness

2011-01-27 Thread Daniel Fischer
While tuning some code, the test programme suddenly started producing stack overflows. Reverting the code to a previous version did not revert that behaviour, code that previously produced a well-behaved binary now produced stack overflowing ones. But only with ghc-7.0.1, not with ghc-6.12.3