#14777: panic -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: zilinc | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.2.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Linux Architecture: | Type of failure: Compile-time Unknown/Multiple | crash or panic Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- The error message I got from GHC was: {{{ <no location info>: error: ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 8.2.2 for x86_64-unknown-linux): idInfo t_XG0J Call stack: CallStack (from HasCallStack): prettyCurrentCallStack, called at compiler/utils/Outputable.hs:1133:58 in ghc:Outputable callStackDoc, called at compiler/utils/Outputable.hs:1137:37 in ghc:Outputable pprPanic, called at compiler/basicTypes/Var.hs:526:34 in ghc:Var Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug }}} How was it triggerred (in short): There's function definition, `f x = undefined`. If I change it to `f x = __impossible "Oops!"`, ghc crashes. The definition of `__impossible` is simply `__impossible s = error $ s ++ "some text"`. The code can be found here: https://github.com/NICTA/cogent/blob/92c40530cbcbac77469865e096dab3228a2fb92... and https://github.com/NICTA/cogent/blob/92c40530cbcbac77469865e096dab3228a2fb92... It seems that this bug is not limited to 8.2.2; it also happened in 8.2.1. I'm happy to provide more information, if someone can advice me what is needed. I'll also try to shrink it to a small test case. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14777 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler