[GHC] #8071: GHCi consistently hangs, crashes in HEAD

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#8071: GHCi consistently hangs, crashes in HEAD
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       Reporter:  parcs           |             Owner:
           Type:  bug             |            Status:  new
       Priority:  normal          |         Milestone:
      Component:  GHCi            |           Version:  7.7
       Keywords:                  |  Operating System:  Linux
   Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)  |   Type of failure:  GHCi crash
     Difficulty:  Unknown         |         Test Case:
     Blocked By:                  |          Blocking:
Related Tickets:                  |
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 GHCi seems to be broken in its current state at least on x86_64 Linux:

 {{{
 GHCi, version 7.7.20130717: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
 Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
 Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
 Loading package base ... linking ... done.
 Prelude> True
 True
 Prelude> Tr<it then hangs as I try to type True>^C
 Prelude>^C
 Prelude>^C
 Prelude>^C
 Prelude>^C
 Prelude>^C
 Prelude>^C
 Prelude> ghc-stage2: internal error: evacuate: strange closure type
 2107444472
     (GHC version 7.7.20130717 for x86_64_unknown_linux)
     Please report this as a GHC bug:
 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
 }}}

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