Subtle bug in Data.ByteString and/or GHC (perhaps)

[Nils Anders Danielsson]

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007, dons at cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart) wrote:

> I note that today we also had a report of a bug related to
> non-evaluatoin of a check in 'binary', meaning an error condition
> wouldn't be spotted, and a short-read value would be returned.  Possibly related.

I tried the most recent darcs version of binary, and the problem
appears to have been fixed, presumably by the patch replacing
inlinePerformIO with unsafePerformIO.

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