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Segfault with multi-threaded retainer profiling

I see the following program often segfaults when compiled and run like this:

% ghc -threaded -O2 -prof -fprof-auto segfault.hs -rtsopts
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( segfault.hs, segfault.o )
Linking segfault ...
% ./segfault aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa +RTS -hr -N5 -V -A512K
# Segfaults, often within a minute.

It also seems to me that it segfaults more often/quickly when some other process is actively running on the same machine. I kept "ghc -e 'last [1..]' +RTS -A13G" running while making the test case. The machine I used has 4 cores, 8 HT threads and 16GB RAM.

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Version 7.4.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Runtime System
Test case
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