Manuel Chakravarty writes:
> Sigbjorn Finne wrote,
>
> > A 55-tuple no less :-) It arises from the compilation of a (big!)
> > letrec of Happy parser states, and is a `bug' that has been fixed in
> > later releases of ghc. I suggest picking up a more recent ghc binary
> > dist, as extending ghc to cope with 55 tuples will require tweaking
> > the compiler sources (an extension that is probably not generally
> > useful to you anyway.)
>
> Are you sure? I am getting the same error message from GHC
> 3.01 (source compiled with GHC 2.10 on a Linux 2.0.30
> machine -- I didn't change anything in the compiler)
> together with with Happy 1.5. Anything, I could have done
> wrong?
>
This was a problem with earlier releases of the 2.xx compiler,
hence my suggestion to upgrade. I've not come across it since then,
but the problem may have resurfaced again. Any chance of getting
hold of a copy of your parser?
--Sigbjorn
