[GHC] #970: GHCi crashes under Windows Millenium

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#970: GHCi crashes under Windows Millenium
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    Reporter:  guest    |       Owner:              
        Type:  bug      |      Status:  new         
    Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:              
   Component:  GHCi     |     Version:  6.6         
    Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:  Windows GHCi
  Difficulty:  Unknown  |    Testcase:              
Architecture:  x86      |          Os:  Windows     
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GHCi fails to launch for me under Windows Millenium.
 The command:
 {{{
 ghc -v --interactive
 }}}
 produces the following:
 {{{
    ___         ___ _
   / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
  / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.6, for Haskell 98.
 / /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
 \____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

 Using package config file: C:\GHC\GHC-6.6\package.conf
 wired-in package base mapped to base-2.0
 wired-in package rts mapped to rts-1.0
 wired-in package haskell98 mapped to haskell98-1.0
 wired-in package template-haskell mapped to template-haskell-2.0
 Hsc static flags: -static
 Loading package base ... linking ... done.
 *** Parser:
 *** Desugar:
 *** Simplify:
 *** CorePrep:
 *** ByteCodeGen:
 *** Parser:
 *** Desugar:
 *** Simplify:
 *** CorePrep:
 *** ByteCodeGen:
 }}}
 at which point GHCi fails with the generic error message (roughly
 translated from French):
 {{{
 Ghc provoked an error in GHC.EXE. The program Ghc will now be stopped.
 If you continue to encounter problems, try to restart your computer.
 }}}
 Restarting the computer, obviously, didn't help.

 I am using GHC 6.6 under Windows Millenium, which was set up using the
 standalone Windows installer. I can use the compiler from the command line
 without any problems, but whenever I try to launch GHCi from the Start
 menu or using "ghc --interactive", I get the above error message. Please
 note that GHCi v6.4.2 works flawlessly on the same machine (a rather old
 Pentium III 650 MHz with a modest 128 Mo of RAM, if such things matter).

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