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'select' fails for very large arguments to 'threadDelay'

The following program crashes GHC with an internal error:

import Control.Concurrent

main = threadDelay 9223372036840001

That seems to be the smallest value that still crashes threadDelay. The next smallest value works. Interestingly, the largest value that works happens to be equal to:

((maxBound :: Int) div 10^7 - 1) * 10^4

  1. .. for whatever that's worth.

If you compile this (with or without optimizations) on ghc-7.4.1, the program crashes with the following error message:

select: Invalid argument bug: internal error: select failed

(GHC version 7.4.1 for x86_64_unknown_linux)

Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

Aborted

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Version 7.4.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
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