[nhc-bugs] Bus Error and Segmentation Fault when Heap Profiling is On

[Malcolm Wallace]

Shin-Cheng Mu <scm at iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:

>     scm$ cat > temp.xml
>     <a><b><item>123</item></b><c></c></a>
>     scm$ ./hxpc temp.xml
>     Bus error
>     scm$ ./hxpc temp.xml +RTS -p
>     Segmentation fault
> 
> If I compile the program without the -p option, it runs fine.
>
> Since Malcolm Wallace has already profiled the program
> on his machine, it seems to be a platform specific problem

When I profiled your code previously, it worked fine on either a
Linux/x86 or Solaris/sparc machine (I don't remember which), but not on
MacOS/powerpc, so yes it does look like a platform-specific problem.
Strangely, although the profile was generated OK on the other platform,
the hp2graph tool for converting it to a graph seg faulted there, but
worked correctly on MacOS/powerpc.

Regards,
    Malcolm