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Attempting to do foreign import with unboxed tuple return type causes GHC panic

stefan@stefans:/tmp$ ghc -ddump-asm -fglasgow-exts X.hs
ghc-6.7.20070829: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 6.7.20070829 for i386-unknown-linux):
resultWrapper
    (# base:GHC.Prim.Int#{(w) tc 3G},
       base:GHC.Prim.Int#{(w) tc 3G},
       base:GHC.Prim.Int#{(w) tc 3G} #)

Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

stefan@stefans:/tmp$ cat X.hs
module X where
import GHC.Exts
foreign import ccall unsafe "foo" foo :: Int# -> Int# -> Int# -> (# Int# , Int# , Int# #)
stefan@stefans:/tmp$ 
  1. 6.1 and 6.4.2 are also affected.
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Version 6.7
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
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