[Haskell-cafe] Linking and unsafePerformIO

Mauricio briqueabraque at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 14 07:57:34 EDT 2008


Hi,

If I have a Haskell wrapper (with unsafe...)
over a function that's never going to return
different values and is always side-effect
free, but can change depending on compile time
options of its library; my program is running,
and then the version of my library is updated
by my distribution smart instalation system,
which does update versions of libraries in
use; is it possible that I get a wrong behavior
of my program?

I do not understand enough about package
management to understand how running programs
or libraries are updated, and less about how
linking works between Haskelll and libraries
on other languages, so I don't know if my
program is guaranteed to stay with a single
version of a library for each run.

(Sure this is a weird situation, but I do
like to think about worst cases.)

Thanks,
Mauríco



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