Reporting as ordered: ghc.exe: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 6.4)

[Simon Marlow]

On 22 July 2005 17:07, Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza wrote:

>    I just got this:
> 
> ---8<-----------------------------
> <interactive>: Not x86 PEi386
> ghc.exe: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 6.4):
>         loadObj: failed
> 
> Please report it as a compiler bug to
> glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org, or
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/.
> ---8<----------------------------- 
> 
>    I've reduced the haskell program down to this:
> 
> ---8<-----------------------------
> import Graphics.Win32
> main = allocaMessage (\msg -> return ())
> ---8<-----------------------------

This was caused by a conflict between the old win32 package and the new
Win32 package, I believe.  The Windows GHC distribution has since been
updated to remove the new Win32 package, because it isn't quite ready
yet.

Cheers,
	Simon