Re: special handling of "Main.hs" contradicts Report

The problem comes when I try to import the module.
Note:
 tests $ cat X.hs
 module X where t1 = t1

 tests $ cp X.hs Main.hs

 tests $ ghc -c X.hs Main.hs

 tests $ ghc --show-iface X.hi
 __interface "Main" X 2 where
 __export  X t1;
 import GHC.Base ! :: 1;
 import Foreign.Ptr !;
 ;
 1 t1 :: forall t. t;
 (1, [])

 tests $ ghc --show-iface Main.hi
 __interface "Main" Main 5 where
 import GHC.IOBase :: 1;
 import GHC.TopHandler :: 1;
 import GHC.Base ! :: 1;
 import Foreign.Ptr !;
 import System.IO :: 1;
 ;
 1 ($main) :: GHC.IOBase.IO ();
 (1, [])

Two identical files but their interface files are different.

- Mark

Simon Marlow wrote:

>  
>
> > I have this simple module:
> >
> >   module X where
> >   t1 = t1
> >
> > If it's in a file called "X.hs," all works as expected,
> > it exports 't1'.  But if it's in a file called "Main.hs,"
> > then it doesn't export 't1'.
> >    
>
> Nope, I can't reproduce that:
>
> Prelude> :!cat Main.hs
> module X where
> t1 = t1
> Prelude> :l Main.hs
> Compiling X                ( Main.hs, interpreted )
> Ok, modules loaded: X.
> *X> :b X
> t1 :: forall t. t
> *X> 
>
>  
>
> > The same is true if we have "module Main" instead of "module X".
> >    
>
> Hmm, there might be a bug here.  I always thought that if you write 'module 
> Main where' as the module header, then the compiler is
> allowed to interpret it as 'module Main (main) where', but I just checked the 
> report and it doesn't seem to say that (perhaps it was
> an older version of Haskell?  Anyone remember?).
>
> Cheers,
>         Simon
>
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