"charToUtf8 1883885648" panic on sparc

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

simonmar:
> On 26 April 2004 17:52, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 
> > On sparc, GHC is failing when building hmake as below:
> > 
> > -----
> > /usr/bin/haskell-compiler    -package lang -c -o
> > /build/buildd/hmake-3.08/targets/sparc-Linux/obj/hmake/QSort.o
> > QSort.hs /usr/bin/haskell-compiler    -package lang -c -o
> >     /build/buildd/hmake-3.08/targets/sparc-Linux/obj/hmake/Unlit.o
> > Unlit.hs ghc-6.2.1: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version
> > 6.2.1): charToUtf8 1883885648  
> 
> Does this only happen on Sparc?
> 
> I don't have a sparc box handy to debug on.  Can I have an account on
> yours? :-)

hmake-3.08 builds fine under ghc-6.2.1 on sparc/openbsd, for what it is
worth.

-- Don