[GHC] #5386: GHCi crashes with SIGFPE when using double-conversion package

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#5386: GHCi crashes with SIGFPE when using double-conversion package
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    Reporter:  bos               |        Owner:            
        Type:  bug               |       Status:  new       
    Priority:  high              |    Milestone:  7.4.1     
   Component:  GHCi              |      Version:  7.0.4     
    Keywords:                    |     Testcase:            
   Blockedby:                    |   Difficulty:            
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Blocking:            
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |      Failure:  GHCi crash
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Comment(by hgolden):

 Replying to [comment:3 simonmar]:
 > How difficult it would be to implement this I don't know, maybe it
 wouldn't be too hard.  We should at least look into it.
 Perhaps this will help: The gory details are explained here
 (http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf), especially section 1.5.6.

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