Understanding the Stack

Posted on May 21, 2014

One of our clients sent us a bug report, which consisted of a 700 line Haskell program with a complaint that “it deadlocks”. After studying the code I concluded that, for the sake of the bug report, it could be summarized as

print a bunch of stuff, then crash with a stack overflow

So I wanted to replace the original code with code that did just that: print a bunch of stuff, then crash with a stack overflow. No big deal: