GHC-8.8.3 Access Violation, possibly because of recent update to Windows 10 2004
Summary
I reinstalled Windows recently, and installed GHC using stack. I have GHC-8.6.5 and GHC-8.8.3 installed, while GHC-8.6.5 works perfectly well, GHC-8.8.3 prints "Access Violation" for even a simple test program (main = putStrLn "hello, world"
).
Steps to reproduce
- Install GHC-8.8.3 using stack
- Write
main = putStrLn "hello, world"
totest.hs
- Run
stack ghc test.hs
(or simplyghc test.hs
whenghc.exe
is inPATH
) - The following error message produced (seems GHC accidentally accessed a null pointer):
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( test.hs, test.o )
Access violation in generated code when writing 0x0
Attempting to reconstruct a stack trace...
Frame Code address
* 0x461da80 0x37f7b66 C:\Users\krant\AppData\Local\Programs\stack\x86_64-windows\ghc-8.8.3\bin\ghc.exe+0x33f7b66
* 0x461da88 0x3277bb9 C:\Users\krant\AppData\Local\Programs\stack\x86_64-windows\ghc-8.8.3\bin\ghc.exe+0x2e77bb9
* 0x461da90 0x3
* 0x461da98 0x76082f9
* 0x461daa0 0x3d80c90 C:\Users\krant\AppData\Local\Programs\stack\x86_64-windows\ghc-8.8.3\bin\ghc.exe+0x3980c90
* 0x461daa8 0x7c15a40
Expected behavior
The program compiles normally.
Environment
- GHC version used: 8.8.3
Optional:
- Operating System: Windows 2004 (Internal version 19041.388)
- System Architecture: x86-64
More Details
- I have my previously-installed GHC elsewhere on my hard drive, so I tested with that (by manually add it to
PATH
and use it), and get the same error message. - I reinstalled Windows, thus Windows version got updated from 1907 to 2004. I suspect the problem is rooted here.
- GHC-8.6.5 compiles the same
test.hs
with no trouble. - I recall that
-fexternal-interpreter
fixes a similar crash, but it does not help in this case. - GHCi/
runghc
works well on the sametest.hs
.