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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Till Varoquaux <till.varoquaux@g...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault.... |
> > and I guess you mean in both bytecode and nativecode and without > compiling with -unsafe, right? > Yes, Of course -unsafe is out of the picture. Using unsafe functions (String.unsafe-get etc...) will also disqualify your solution. And I'll push it even further: using -rectypes counts as a penalty but crashing the interpreter is a bonus. Till P.S. I forgot to give credit in my previous mail: the bug was found with Stéphane Glondu and Jérôme Vouillon while trying to understand scanf, however they should not be held responsible for this post . Adam Chlipala pointed out this might be the record for a segfault in Ocaml, giving me the idea of launching this contest... > > -- > Jean-Christophe Filliâtre > http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ > > >