[GHC] #15270: TH doesn't verify name types during conversion

13 Jun 2018

      #15270: TH doesn't verify name types during conversion
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           Reporter:  bgamari        |             Owner:  (none)
               Type:  bug            |            Status:  new
           Priority:  normal         |         Milestone:  8.6.1
          Component:  Template       |           Version:  8.4.3
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           Keywords:                 |  Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple
       Architecture:                 |   Type of failure:  None/Unknown
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 Angerman reported that a use of the [[http://hackage.haskell.org/package
 /deriving-compat-0.4.2/docs/src/Data.Eq.Deriving.Internal.html#deriveEq1
 `deriveEq`]] splice is causing GHC to abort with an assertion failure:
 {{{#!hs
 zonkExpr env (HsVar x (L l id))
   = ASSERT2( isNothing (isDataConId_maybe id), ppr id )
     return (HsVar x (L l (zonkIdOcc env id)))
 }}}

 I suspect the `deriveEq1` is calling `varE` with a DataCon name. We should
 catch this case and throw a better error message.

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Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15270
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