RE: heap exhausted error

Yes, maybe user-caused heap overflow should get a different error message.  It’s certainly not GHC’s fault!

 

Simon

 

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From: glasgow-haskell-bugs-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:glasgow-haskell-bugs-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of herington, dean
Sent: 03 May 2004 16:08
To: 'glasgow-haskell-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: heap exhausted error

 

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Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Prelude> :m +List
Prelude List> [] \\ [1..]
<interactive>: internal error: RTS exhausted max heap size (268435456 bytes)

 

    Please report this as a bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx,
    or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/

 

 

As the heap exhaustion is expected and user-caused, I'm not sure why the above is an "internal error".  But I'm reporting it as requested.

 

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