static constants -- ideas?

[Jay Scott]

Don Stewart dons at galois.com:
>jay:
>> Don Stewart dons at galois.com:
>> >jay:
>> >> I also have constants that are too large to compile. I am resigned to
>> >> loading them from data files--other solutions seem even worse.
>> ...
>> >> Data.Binary eases the irritation somewhat.
>> >
>> >Did you try bytestring literals (and maybe parsing them in-memory with
>> >Data.Binary)?

I finally squeezed enough time to try it, and it didn't work for me.

--
ghc Overflow.hs
[1 of 1] Compiling Overflow         ( Overflow.hs, Overflow.o )

Overflow.hs:8:10:stack overflow: use +RTS -K<size> to increase it
--

where Overflow.hs is in the vicinity of 40M and looks like

--
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

module Overflow where

import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as S

bigData :: S.ByteString
bigData = "\0\0\0\0\0\5\67\195\0\0\0\0...
--

I didn't compress it, because Codec.Compression.GZip didn't compile for
me. It looked like a library change since 6.6 broke it.

Is there a handy string escaping function in the libraries somewhere? It
only took a minute to write one, and I spent longer than that looking,
so maybe it's the wrong question.... Surely it's in there somewhere, and
I'm just 2 dum 2 c.

  Jay