[GHC] #5203: Stack overflow in criterion

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#5203: Stack overflow in criterion
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    Reporter:  rl                |        Owner:  igloo        
        Type:  bug               |       Status:  new          
    Priority:  highest           |    Milestone:  7.2.1        
   Component:  Compiler          |      Version:  7.1          
    Keywords:                    |     Testcase:               
   Blockedby:                    |   Difficulty:               
          Os:  MacOS X           |     Blocking:               
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |      Failure:  Runtime crash
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Comment(by igloo):

 Smaller testcase (q2.hs, W2.hs) attached. Still depends on `vector` (and
 therefore transitively `primitive`), although they are part of a normal
 GHC tree anyway.

 {{{
 $ ghc --make q2 -O -Wall -fforce-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint
 [1 of 2] Compiling W2               ( W2.hs, W2.o )
 [2 of 2] Compiling Main             ( q2.hs, q2.o )
 Linking q2 ...
 $ ./q2
 W1
 mean
 159999
 "A"
 "B"
 "C"
 W3
 }}}

 {{{
 $ ghc --make q2 -O -Wall -fforce-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -DBREAK
 [1 of 2] Compiling W2               ( W2.hs, W2.o )
 [2 of 2] Compiling Main             ( q2.hs, q2.o )
 Linking q2 ...
 $ ./q2
 W1
 mean
 Stack space overflow: current size 8388608 bytes.
 Use `+RTS -Ksize -RTS' to increase it.
 }}}

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