[GHC] #12655: Bizarre parser problem: "Illegal bang-pattern" (something to do with CPP?)

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#12655: Bizarre parser problem: "Illegal bang-pattern" (something to do with CPP?)
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        Reporter:  edsko             |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  7.4.2
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Comment (by edsko):

 Aha, I see. That makes sense. Do you have any suggested workarounds?

 Just found another package that suffers from the same problem:
 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/primitive-0.6.1.0/primitive-0.6.1.0.tar.gz
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