[commit: ghc] ghc-7.10: users guide: Add note about #11108 to bugs section (2ee1e69)
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Link : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/2ee1e694b63846b179712ecd3aa019aea0a8b5cd/ghc
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commit 2ee1e694b63846b179712ecd3aa019aea0a8b5cd
Author: Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>
Date: Thu Nov 26 00:21:13 2015 +0100
users guide: Add note about #11108 to bugs section
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2ee1e694b63846b179712ecd3aa019aea0a8b5cd
docs/users_guide/bugs.xml | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml b/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml
index 3eb5304..858291f 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml
@@ -564,6 +564,14 @@ checking for duplicates. The reason for this is efficiency, pure and simple.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>There is known to be maleficent interactions between weak
+ references and laziness. Particularly, it has been observed that placing a thunk
+ containing a reference to a weak reference inside of another weak reference may
+ cause runtime crashes. See <ulink
+ href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11108">Trac #11108</ulink>
+ for details.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
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