[Haskell-cafe] 2^770000 triggers Bus Error?

[Alexander Vieth]

Interesting. This is reproducible on my machine (OSX 10.7.5), with an older GHC:

$ ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.6.3

Check out this ticket https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7655 

Alex

On 2014-10-17, at 11:46 AM, Erik Rantapaa wrote:

> Running ghci under OSX I am seeing the following behavior:
> 
> Prelude> 2^750000
> {... lots of digits...}
> 
> Prelude> 2^760000
> Segmentation Fault: 11
> 
> Prelude> 2^770000
> Bus Error: 10
> 
> and I'm curious why this happens.
> 
> More details:
> 
> $ ghci --version
> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.8.3
> 
> I'm using the 64-bit version of the Haskell Platform (x86_64-darwin-7.8.3).
> 
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