bus error in Integer calculations

[Ben Gamari]

Geraint Jones <Geraint.Jones at wolfson.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> I have this little demo which I use for sixth formers which includes
> calculating in fairly rapid order the sum of the digits of the
> 10^9th Fibonacci number.  (I haven't got enough physical memory to 
> do the same for the 10^10th number without thrashing...)  It fell 
> over on a flashy new macbook I was going to use for the presentation 
> the other day; indeed I found I couldn't even calculate the sum of
> the digits of the 10^6th number.  
>
For the record this was reported as GHC #12954.

Cheers,

- Ben

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