[GHC] #9208: panic - attempt to prod-split strictness call demand C(S(C(C(S(LS)))))

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#9208: panic - attempt to prod-split strictness call demand C(S(C(C(S(LS)))))
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        Reporter:  luite                         |            Owner:
            Type:  bug                           |           Status:  new
        Priority:  normal                        |        Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler                      |          Version:  7.8.2
      Resolution:                                |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple              |     Architecture:
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown                  |  Unknown/Multiple
       Test Case:  stranal/should_compile/T9208  |       Difficulty:
        Blocking:                                |  Unknown
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Comment (by luite):

 Yes, in my real code I'm not quite doing this, but since it's part of the
 ghcjs-prim package I had to remove some code (`foreign import javascript`)
 that's not supported by normal GHC. The actual `loadTHData` would do some
 JavaScript runtime calls to load the code in the `ByteString`, initialise
 the info tables and then return a closure of the expected type.

 It's part of my work to decouple Template Haskell from the GHC process and
 thus the host platform. GHC sets up a connection to a TH service and
 incrementally sends compiled code (target architecture) to it, the TH
 service can query GHC for reification. For GHCJS this is a node.js server,
 but when when my proof of concept works, I'll ask on ghc-devs if there's
 interest in extending this for general cross compilation in GHC.

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