[Haskell-cafe] STM, newArray, and a stack overflow?

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 March 2011 13:35, Ketil Malde <ketil at malde.org> wrote:
>> I'm seeing some weirdness here.  My code does this:
>>
>>    omap <- atomically $ (newArray_ (0,n-1) :: STM (TArray Int Int))
>>
>> This gives a stack overflow when n is one million.
>
> I can't reproduce this with ghci-7.0.2 (base-4.3.1.0, array-0.3.0.2
> and stm-2.2.0.1). What version of ghc/ghci are you using?

I can't reproduce it either, using ghci-6.12.3, base-4.2.0.2,
array-0.3.0.1 and stm-2.2.0.1.  However it takes a loooong time and a
lot of CPU time =).

Cheers,

-- 
Felipe.