[GHC] #4800: Memory Leak when Compiling qtHaskell

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#4800: Memory Leak when Compiling qtHaskell
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    Reporter:  gidyn                                                      |       Owner:                    
        Type:  bug                                                        |      Status:  new               
    Priority:  normal                                                     |   Component:  Compiler          
     Version:  6.12.3                                                     |    Keywords:                    
    Testcase:  developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10072  |   Blockedby:                    
          Os:  Windows                                                    |    Blocking:                    
Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)                                             |     Failure:  Compile-time crash
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 I get an out-of-memory error about two thirds of the way through building
 qtHaskell (latest version, 1.1.4). If I start again, the remaining modules
 are compiled successfully, although GHC's memory usage creeps up to about
 1.5Gb by the time it's finished.

 This is on Win7 x64 with 4Gb RAM.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4800>
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