ashley:
> Thomas Davie wrote:
> >I'd be interested to see your other examples -- because that error is
> >not happening in Haskell! You can't argue that Haskell doesn't give you
> >no segfaults, because you can embed a C segfault within Haskell.
>
> This segfaults on my x86_64 Linux box:
>
> module Main where
> import Data.Typeable
> import Data.IORef
> data T = T
> instance Typeable T where
> typeOf _ = typeOf (undefined :: IORef ())
> main :: IO ()
> main = writeIORef (maybe undefined id (cast T)) ()
>
> You'll note nothing marked "Foreign" or "unsafe", and only the base
> library used. Does the segfault "happen in Haskell" or not?
You just wrote unsafeCoere# a different way:
typeOf T = typeOf (undefined :: IORef ())
Manual Typeable deriving should probably be disabled :-)
-- Don
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