[Haskell-cafe] Hugs

[Andrew Coppin]

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
>
>> > This is not in the bug tracker. Do you have a reproducible test case?
>> > I think I fixed one bug related to this a while back.
>>
>> Unfortunately it seems very intermittent. Sometimes it works fine,
>> sometimes it just acts weirdly at me.
>
> It was a multithreaded/locking bug, the worst kind to track down and
> rarely repeatable. I think I quashed it though, but if you see it
> again in the next release please let me know.

Ah, God bless nondeterministic software! ;-)

>> >> Also, more than once I've been visited by Dr
>> >> Watson. I don't care *what* you do to a program, it should _never_ 
>> crash
>> >> that badly...
>> >
>> > I've never crashed WinHugs, ever. If you could say *what* crashes Hugs
>> > we'd have a much better chance and fixing it.
>>
>> Again, intermittent, can't reliably reproduce. This one is a lot rarer
>> than the first, fortunately.
>
> Anything to do with the FFI? At load time or run time? If it reoccurs
> please jot down any details you have.

...Hugs can do FFI?? o_O