[Haskell-cafe] how out of memory is handled in Haskell

Manlio Perillo manlio_perillo at libero.it
Tue Jan 6 18:11:29 EST 2009


Hi.

Here:
http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html

I found how Erlang (or at least old versions of Erlang) handles out of
memory failure: it just calls exit(1).


How is this handled in GHC?
- exit(1)?
- abort()?
- IO exception?


Thanks   Manlio Perillo



More information about the Haskell-Cafe mailing list