Is Safe Haskell intended to allow segfaults?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:

> If you can execute subprocesses, you could always spawn gdb to
> attach via ptrace() to the parent process and then poke around
> memory.
>

Don't even need that if you're just talking segfaults, you can always spawn
a subprocess "kill -SEGV $PPID" :)

Unless you have full control over all the code that could be run in
subprocesses, it's not going to be safe much less Safe.

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