[Haskell-cafe] Text.Regex Segfault

[Christopher Done]

On 17 October 2010 04:45, Duane Johnson <duane.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I bumped into a segmentation fault in the regex library today and thought
> I'd warn others in case similar behavior is observed:
>
>> Prelude> :m Text.Regex
>> Prelude Text.Regex> map read (splitRegex (mkRegex "\\|") "0|1|2|4") ::
>> [Int]
>> Loading pack:age syb ... linking ... done.
>> Loading package array-0.2.0.0 ... linking ... done.
>> Loading package bytestring-0.9.1.4 ... linking ... done.
>> Loading package regex-base-0.72.0.2 ... linking ... done.
>> Loading package regex-posix-0.72.0.3 ... linking ... done.
>> Loading package regex-compat-0.71.0.1 ... linking ... done.
>> [0,1,2,4]
>> Prelude Text.Regex> Segmentation fault

I am on Ubuntu 10.04 with GHC 6.12.3, regex-base-0.93.2,
regex-posix-0.94.4 and regex-compat-0.93.1, and I do not have this
problem. See below.

Did you try it again? That kind of bug might just be GHCi. If it
persists, maybe upgrading should fix the issue.

chris at cn-done:~$ ghci
GHCi, version 6.12.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Loading package ffi-1.0 ... linking ... done.
λ> :m Text.Regex
λ> map read (splitRegex (mkRegex "\\|") "0|1|2|4") :: [Int]
Loading package array-0.3.0.1 ... linking ... done.
Loading package containers-0.3.0.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package bytestring-0.9.1.7 ... linking ... done.
Loading package mtl-1.1.1.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package regex-base-0.93.2 ... linking ... done.
Loading package regex-posix-0.94.4 ... linking ... done.
Loading package regex-compat-0.93.1 ... linking ... done.
[0,1,2,4]
λ>