PackedString.hGetPS produces index exception

[George Russell]

Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Remove old .hi files.  When the .hi-file format changes, GHC can emit
> horrid messages like this.  It's a royal pain, arising from their binary
> format.  It only bites during version transitions, so we've never gotten
> around to fixing it.

Eh what?  This occurs when the function is run, not during compilation.

> 
> Simon
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: glasgow-haskell-bugs-admin at haskell.org
> [mailto:glasgow-haskell-bugs-admin at haskell.org] On
> | Behalf Of George Russell
> | Sent: 15 April 2003 19:29
> | To: glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org
> | 
> | Why does the attached function psTest, for ghc5.04.3 on Linux, produce
> the
> | error:
> |     *** Exception: Ix{Int}.index: Index (30000) out of range
> ((0,29999))
> | 
> 
>