(not too important) compiler bug

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Mon Nov 12 07:28:09 EST 2001


> I really like your work and personally I do not have to complain,
> but ghc urges me to "report it as a compiler bug":
> 
> ghc    -c -o LinkBase.o LinkBase.hs
> 
>  panic! (the `impossible' happened):
>  	Oversize heap check detected.  Please try compiling with -O.
> 
>  	Please report it as a compiler bug to 
> glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org.
> 
> LinkBase.hs contains (automatically generated) biiig lists, and using
> the "-O" flag solves the problem (especially therefore I have 
> no complain ;-)

Thanks for the report.  Fortunately I have some good news: I fixed this
bug last week, so the next release won't have it.

Cheers,
	Simon




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