[GHC] #5071: GHCi crashes on large alloca/allocaBytes requests

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#5071: GHCi crashes on large alloca/allocaBytes requests
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    Reporter:  guest             |       Owner:                  
        Type:  bug               |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  7.4.1           
   Component:  Compiler          |     Version:  7.0.3           
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:                    |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
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Comment(by marlowsd@…):

 commit d95a7f1311578cf37c0889098d32cbcb8964d906
 {{{
 Author: Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
 Date:   Mon Dec 12 14:18:30 2011 +0000

     Avoid integer overflow when calling allocGroup() (#5071)

  rts/hooks/OutOfHeap.c |    8 ++++++--
  rts/sm/Storage.c      |    7 +++++--
  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 }}}

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