ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 1

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Ian Lynagh wrote:

> We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.0.1:
>
>    http://new-www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.1-rc1/
>
> This includes the source tarball, installers for OS X and Windows, and
> bindists for amd64/Linux and i386/Linux.
>
> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> before the release!

ganesh at nevis:~/dataenc$ cabal install regex-posix
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring regex-posix-0.94.4...
Preprocessing library regex-posix-0.94.4...
Building regex-posix-0.94.4...
[1 of 6] Compiling Text.Regex.Posix.Wrap ( 
dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Wrap.hs, dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Wrap.o )
SpecConstr
     Function `lvl_s2xM{v} [lid]'
       has three call patterns, but the limit is 0
     Use -fspec-constr-count=n to set the bound
     Use -dppr-debug to see specialisations
ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
   (GHC version 7.0.0.20100924 for x86_64-unknown-linux):
         initC: srt_lbl

Let me know if you'd prefer this to be recorded in trac or would like me 
to try to cut it down.

Cheers,

Ganesh