Re: [pure-lang-users] Segfault using lambda

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

> Chris Double wrote:
>> I get a segfault using current SVN (r10) with the following:
>>
>>> let y=(\a b -> a+b);y 1 5;
>> Am I misunderstanding how let works?
> 
> No, it's a bug. Apparently the closure gets garbage-collected while it's
> still bound by the variable. I think I already know where that happens.

Ok, that one is now fixed, too. This was a bit trickier than expected,
since not the runtime representation of the closure was
garbage-collected too early, but the executable code associated with it,
causing wrong machine code to be executed.

Albert

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