FFI in GHCi 5.02

[Koen Claessen]

Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

 | > ghc-5.02: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version
 | > 5.02):
 | >         ByteCodeFFI.mkMarshalCode_wrk(sparc) C_
 | >
 | > Please report it as a compiler bug to
 | > glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org,
 | > or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/.
 :
 | I vaguely remember that Julian wrote that the
 | interpreter support for the FFI is limited to x86 for
 | the moment.  You still should be fine if you compile
 | all modules including a foreign import declaration.

I know I should be fine compiling my modules.

I am just reporting this as a bug, because:

  * either the FFI should work (but it doesn't)

  * or it does not work (but GHC panics anyway)

In either case this is a bug...

/Koen.

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