[Template-haskell] Possible problem with TH

[Sean Seefried]

I read Simon's reply to Brian Kellar.  Brian attempted to compile the 
following program and got a segmentation fault

| {- metatest.hs -}
| import Splices
|
| main = do
|    print $(len "foo")
|
|
|
| {- Splices.hs -}
|
| module Splices where
|
| import Language.Haskell.THSyntax
|
| len s = [| length s |]

I attempted to compile the same program using the snapshot from the 5th 
January (before Simon made the fixes to make this program compile) and 
found that I got a different error.  I am running a different distro of 
Linux though (Debian).  My error message was

-----------

Compiling Splices          ( Splices.hs, ./Splices.o )
Compiling Main             ( Main.hs, ./Main.o )
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Loading package haskell98 ... linking ... done.
Loading package haskell-src ... linking ... done.
ghc-5.05.20030105: internal error: stg_ap_v_ret
     Please report this as a bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org,
     or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/
make: *** [all] Error 254

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I don't know if this is useful or not but I thought I'd better post. 
For various reasons I am unable to build GHC from CVS sources so I have 
been relying on the snapshots provided.  I will try compiling this 
program once the 01062003 (or 01072003) snapshot comes out.

Sean