[GHC] #5003: test 4038 (ghci) fails on OS X 64 bit.

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#5003: test 4038 (ghci) fails on OS X 64 bit.
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    Reporter:  gwright           |        Owner:  gwright      
        Type:  bug               |       Status:  new          
    Priority:  high              |    Milestone:  7.2.1        
   Component:  GHCi              |      Version:  7.0.2        
    Keywords:                    |     Testcase:               
   Blockedby:                    |   Difficulty:               
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Blocking:               
Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)    |      Failure:  Runtime crash
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Comment(by altaic):

 Oh that makes sense. On x86-64, `RESERVED_C_STACK_BYTES` = 2048 *
 sizeof(SIZEOF_LONG) = 2048 * 8 = 16384 = 16k. Dividing 8192/16 = 512,
 which is roughly the number of iterations the program runs before
 crashing. Except they're not loop iterations, they are nested C calls
 which each get a whopping 16k of stack. So wouldn't this be expected
 behavior?

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