On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> wrote:
 
In the case of the double-conversion library, this means that static read-only arrays that it assumes to contain valid data are full of junk.
You can join in the fun over at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5289

Oops, that bug is not actually relevant to this case.