[MLton] Re: [Haskell-cafe] fastest Fibonacci numbers in the West

Daniel C. Wang danwang@CS.Princeton.EDU
Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:33 -0500


Might I suggest
  http://libsigsegv.sourceforge.net/
At the very least a less puzzling error message could be thrown.

Henry Cejtin wrote:
> What a pain.  I wonder where else the library uses space (stack in particular).
> I really don't like the idea of MLton programs seg-faulting, ever.
> I guess that if we could estimate the amount of stack needed then we could
> see if it would fit.  Alternatively we could catch seg-fault and see if we
> were in GMP code, so at least the error message would be better.
> (We can also be pimped by the GCD, which does allocation in the malloc heap.)
> 
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