The Data.Array.* hierarchy is unsafe (or, Segfaulting for fun
and profit)
Nils Anders Danielsson
nad at cs.chalmers.se
Wed Dec 6 05:16:50 EST 2006
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006, "Samuel Bronson" <naesten at gmail.com> wrote:
> But, will you ever encounter such overflows in using an array? I
> suppose you might if you tried to make one larger than the address
> space...
Are you assuming that Ints can always be used to address the entire
address space? Ints are only guaranteed to have 30 bits.
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/NAD
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