[Haskell-cafe] Crash!

[Tim Newsham]

> The point is... I'm not doing that. Gtk2hs is, but that's a well-tested 
> library, so I very much doubt it's the source of the bug.

I don't understand why Haskell users believe (perhaps are too often led to 
believe) that haskell programs can't crash.  Gtk2hs does a lot of native 
stuff.  Gtk's been around for a long time, but so has a lot of other 
software that has lots of bugs still present in it. Often these bugs lead 
to memory corruption and crashes.  Haskell does nothing to prevent this 
from happening (how could it?).

I entirely expect that this crash is due to Gtk2hs (well-tested though it 
may be) or one of its underlying dependencies (such as libpng).

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/