[GHC] #3385: Compiling readline 1.0.1.0 on GHC 6.10.3 causes panic

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#3385: Compiling readline 1.0.1.0 on GHC 6.10.3 causes panic
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Reporter:  gparent                   |          Owner:          
    Type:  bug                       |         Status:  new     
Priority:  normal                    |      Component:  Compiler
 Version:  6.10.3                    |       Severity:  normal  
Keywords:  readline panic truncated  |       Testcase:          
      Os:  Linux                     |   Architecture:  x86     
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 Compiling readline 1.0.1.0 from source using GHC 6.10.3 causes the
 following output:

 geordi at debianserv:~/haskell/readline-1.0.1.0$ runhaskell Setup.hs
 configure

 Setup.hs:3:0:
     Warning: In the use of `defaultUserHooks'
              (imported from Distribution.Simple):
              Deprecated: "Use simpleUserHooks or autoconfUserHooks, unless
 you need Cabal-1.2
              compatibility in which case you must stick with
 defaultUserHooks"
 Warning: defaultUserHooks in Setup script is deprecated.
 Configuring readline-1.0.1.0...
 checking for gcc... gcc
 checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
 checking whether the C compiler works... yes
 checking whether we are cross compiling... no
 checking for suffix of executables...
 checking for suffix of object files... o
 checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
 checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
 checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
 checking for GNUreadline.framework... checking for readline... no
 checking for tputs in -lncurses... yes
 checking for readline in -lreadline... yes
 checking for rl_readline_version... yes
 checking for rl_begin_undo_group... yes
 checking for rl_erase_empty_line... yes
 checking for rl_free_undo_list... yes
 checking for rl_completion_word_break_hook in -lreadline... yes
 configure: creating ./config.status
 config.status: creating config.mk
 config.status: creating readline.buildinfo
 config.status: creating include/HsReadlineConfig.h
 config.status: include/HsReadlineConfig.h is unchanged
 geordi at debianserv:~/haskell/readline-1.0.1.0$ runhaskell Setup.hs build

 Setup.hs:3:0:
     Warning: In the use of `defaultUserHooks'
              (imported from Distribution.Simple):
              Deprecated: "Use simpleUserHooks or autoconfUserHooks, unless
 you need Cabal-1.2
              compatibility in which case you must stick with
 defaultUserHooks"
 Preprocessing library readline-1.0.1.0...
 Building readline-1.0.1.0...
 Binary: Int64 truncated to fit in 32 bit Int
 ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
   (GHC version 6.10.3 for i386-unknown-linux):
         Prelude.chr: bad argument

 Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

 geordi at debianserv:~/haskell/readline-1.0.1.0$


 Package was downloaded from: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-
 scripts/package/readline

 GHC is the latest version from Debian/Unstable.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3385>
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