Division by 0 exits ghci

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

George Russell <ger at tzi.de> wrote,

> In fact the problem is more drastic than I mentioned in my last message; division by 0
> doesn't seem to be catchable at all.  From this program
> ----------- cut here -----------------------
> import Exception
> 
> main = 
>    do
>       excep <- Exception.try (seq (1 `div` 0) (return ()))
>       putStrLn "Survived"
> ----------- cut here ----------------------
> I get the output "Arithmetic Exception" on Solaris and "Floating point exception" on Linux,
> while I think I ought to get "Survived".

AFAIK, this is a known bug.  Maybe you should enter it into
the bug tracker, so that it remains known ;-)

Cheers,
Manuel