A bug in GHC 6.0 (unbelieveable, I know ...)

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

You need 6.0.1  This bug is a famous problem with 6.0

I'm glad it's otherwise solid!

| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-bugs-admin at haskell.org
[mailto:glasgow-haskell-bugs-admin at haskell.org] On
| Behalf Of Julian Seward
| Sent: 03 September 2003 16:35
| To: glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org
| Subject: A bug in GHC 6.0 (unbelieveable, I know ...)
| 
| 
| jseward at pc998:~/SCG/scg$ ghci
|    ___         ___ _
|   / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
|  / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.0, for Haskell
98.
| / /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
| \____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.
| 
| Loading package base ... linking ... done.
| Prelude>
| Prelude> let sieve (x:xs) = x : filter ((/= 0).(`mod` x)) (sieve xs)
in sieve
| [2 ..]
| ghc-6.0: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 6.0):
|         getLinkDeps No iface for [<pkg>]GHCziErr
| 
| Please report it as a compiler bug to
glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org,
| or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/.
| 
| 
| Prelude>
| 
| Even stranger considering 6.0 is otherwise rock-solid and successfully
| runs 30000+ loc programs on the interpreter with no problems.  This is
| the .tar.bz2 binary build for x86-linux, running on R H 7.3.
| 
| J
| 
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