[Haskell-cafe] ghc warning "Var/Type length mismatch"

[Tim Chevalier]

On 3/22/07, Nicolas Frisby <nicolas.frisby at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I load my program, GHC spits these messages at me, but doesn't
> fail Any idea what might be causing this or how to figure that out?
>
> Var/Type length mismatch:
>     []
>     [a{tv aGIf} [tau]]
> ...
> Var/Type length mismatch:
>     []
>     [a{tv aGN8} [tv]]
> ...
>
> I found the responsible code in GHC's darcs, but the context didn't
> lend any help my feeble non-GHC hacker brain.
>
> My program is kind of big and I'm using personal libraries that
> exercise the type system a lot, but I'll wait to see if anyone is
> interested or if this has been handled before I share the gory
> details. This tidbit might help: I have a couple of usages of
> undefined in my program b/c I'm just starting to code and if I replace
> a particular undefined of this with some typed dummy code, it removes
> the second set of mismatches, but not the first.  I tried also
> replacing the other undefined, but the first set of mismatches
> remained.
>
> Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.7.20070214, for Haskell 98,
> compiled by GHC version 6.7.20070214
>
> Also, is there a better list for this question? I half-heartedly tried
> haskell.org's list of mailing lists for an appropriate place for GHC
> bugs but didn't find one.
>

Try glasgow-haskell-bugs; I'm forwarding this message there (I don't
know offhand whether that warning is anything to be concerned about,
but on ghc-bugs it'll get noticed pretty quickly.)

Cheers,
Tim

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