[darcs-users] "darcs get" crashes (usually)

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at pps.jussieu.fr
Thu Jul 29 20:32:57 UTC 2004


> Hmmmm.  This is very strange.  Without the mmap support, this means there
> is a bug in the compiler.

Not necessarily -- darcs is linked against quite a bit of foreign code
(Curl, Curses, SSL, Readline, compat.c).  If any of that code is
corrupting the heap, it would manifest itself by a crash in the GC.

Good luck debugging that :-(

                                        Juliusz




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