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| author | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2015-11-26 00:21:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2015-11-26 00:33:52 +0100 |
| commit | 2ee1e694b63846b179712ecd3aa019aea0a8b5cd (patch) | |
| tree | 8a093decd9b0dc5f8304b4eb0bafb446dc57059d | |
| parent | bc977c220eb5f25958bed58a0d4d7146e1208abb (diff) | |
| download | haskell-2ee1e694b63846b179712ecd3aa019aea0a8b5cd.tar.gz | |
users guide: Add note about #11108 to bugs section
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml b/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml index 3eb5304221..858291ffc5 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml @@ -564,6 +564,14 @@ checking for duplicates. The reason for this is efficiency, pure and simple. </para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>There is known to be maleficent interactions between weak + references and laziness. Particularly, it has been observed that placing a thunk + containing a reference to a weak reference inside of another weak reference may + cause runtime crashes. See <ulink + href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11108">Trac #11108</ulink> + for details.</para> + </listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect2> |