patch applied (ghc-6.8/ghc): Finally,
I managed to squash an infamous bug in :print
Ian Lynagh
igloo at haskell.galois.com
Fri Oct 12 17:36:57 EDT 2007
Thu Sep 27 08:13:00 PDT 2007 Pepe Iborra <mnislaih at gmail.com>
* Finally, I managed to squash an infamous bug in :print
It turns out the newtype handling code in :print
was slipping non mutable Tyvars in the types reconstructed.
The error message eventually produced was rather obscure:
[src/Tp.hs:75:28-64] *MainTp> :p x
*** Exception: No match in record selector Var.tcTyVarDetails
[src/Tp.hs:75:28-64] *MainTp>
Due to non mutable tyvars, unifyType was failing.
A well placed assertion in the unifyType code would have made
my life much easier.
Which reminds me I should install a -ddump-* system in the
RTTI subsystem, or future hackers will run away in swearing.
MERGE TO STABLE
M ./compiler/ghci/RtClosureInspect.hs -20 +28
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