slight difference in strictness between -O0 and -O

[Kirsten Chevalier]

On 3/12/07, Kirsten Chevalier <catamorphism at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Albert Y. C. Lai <trebla at vex.net> wrote:
> > main = print (map (const 'x') (take 1 (undefined:undefined)))
> >
> > In ghci, or with ghc -O0, this produces "x".
> > With ghc -O, this produces Prelude.undefined.
> >
>
> What version of ghc?
>

I was curious, so I checked this against ghc 6.6. Indeed, it exhibits
the behavior Albert describes above. Same goes for the HEAD. In ghc
6.4.2, however, the program prints "x" whether compiled with -O or
-O0.

This does seem like a bug to me.

Cheers,
Kirsten

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