the impossible happened, large static list.

[Simon Marlow]

Philip Weaver wrote:
> Hello.  I think I've seen other people encounter this problem before, 
> but I wasn't able to find the solution, if there is one.
> 
> I have a very large static list of type [[Int]].  It is 128 lists of 128 
> integers each.  When I try to load the module that defines this list, I 
> get an error:
> 
>    ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
>      (GHC version 6.10.1 for i386-apple-darwin):
>            linkBCO: >= 64k insns in BCO
> 
>    Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
> 
> This happens on both linux and mac os, both ghc-6.8.3 and ghc-6.10.1, 
> and both GHC and GHCi.  Is there anything I can do to avoid this?  Thanks!

Sorry for the inconvenience.  Splitting the list into two modules should 
avoid it.  Here's the relevant ticket:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/789

Cheers,
	Simon