No parameter-validation in Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities
> ghci
GHCi, version 7.6.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
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Prelude> Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities $ negate 1
malloc: failed on request for 18446744073709551104 bytes; message: moreCapabilities
The parameter is forwarded to the underlying C-function without validation, the runtime then crashes; no exception is thrown. This behaviour also exists in ghc 8.0.2