CompiledFunction crashes kernel

Question

This crashes my kernel

Compile[{{x, _Real}, {center, _Real, 1}, {point, _Real, 1}}, 
(1` + (x - 1`) Exp[-Norm[point - center] 10`]), 
RuntimeAttributes -> Listable][3`, {0`, 0`}, {{1`, 1`}, {{1`, 1`}}}]

Changing the input parameters doesn't seem to change anything.

Changing (x - 1`) to x or to (3` - 1`) solves it.

Passing a proper matrix {{1`, 1`}, {1`, 1`}} solves it too.

Removing the 10` solves it too

What could be going on?

Answer 1

Since the compiled function is Listable, there's an attempt to evaluate it in parallel across different threads, and that's where the crash occurs.

Disabling the parallel evaluation works around the problem and stays in the virtual machine:

cf = Compile[{{x, _Real}, {center, _Real, 1}, {point, _Real, 1}}, 
    (1` + (x - 1`) Exp[-Norm[point - center] 10`]), 
    RuntimeAttributes -> Listable, Parallelization->False];
cf[3`, {0`, 0`}, {{1`, 1`}, {{1`, 1`}}}]

Answer 2

Although I absolutely don't know what is going on at all, adding a Print before the real evaluation seems a possible working around in my Mathematica 9 64bit version.

Compile[{{x, _Real}, {center, _Real, 1}, {point, _Real, 1}},
  Print[];
  (1` + (x - 1`) Exp[-Norm[point - center] 10`]), 
  RuntimeAttributes -> Listable][3`, {0`, 0`}, {{1`, 1`}, {{1`, 1`}}}]