RE: "charToUtf8 1883885648" panic on sparc

On 26 April 2004 17:52, Ian Lynagh wrote:

> On sparc, GHC is failing when building hmake as below:
> 
> -----
> /usr/bin/haskell-compiler    -package lang -c -o
> /build/buildd/hmake-3.08/targets/sparc-Linux/obj/hmake/QSort.o
> QSort.hs /usr/bin/haskell-compiler    -package lang -c -o
>     /build/buildd/hmake-3.08/targets/sparc-Linux/obj/hmake/Unlit.o
> Unlit.hs ghc-6.2.1: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version
> 6.2.1): charToUtf8 1883885648  

Does this only happen on Sparc?

I don't have a sparc box handy to debug on.  Can I have an account on
yours? :-)

Cheers,
        Simon