Proposal: Improved error message of "Error in array index"
Rene de Visser
rene_de_visser at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 8 07:08:45 EST 2005
>One idea that occurred to us recently is this: GHCi could provide a
>simplified version of the cost-centre-stack machinery *all the time*,
>Simon
This still doesn't explain to me why
C:\Haskell\dev>main +RTS -xc
gave
<GHC.Arr.CAF>main: Error in array index
(This is with full profiling turned on)
This sort of stack is not going to help anyone.
What I think would be good is the ability to compile the executable with a
top level exeception handler which goes into a low level debugger where you
can examine the thunk and its surroundings.
I presume that some type information is retained for the garbage collector?
Enough to tell integers from pointers?
Also
error "Error in array index" ++ internal_show_b b ++ internal_show_i i
could be done, which wouldn't have the problem of exporting unwanted show
instances.
Rene.
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