ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) linkBCO: >= 64k insns in BCO

ghci told me to report a bug:

$ ghci 18.hs
GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( 18.hs, interpreted )
ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 6.10.1 for i386-unknown-linux):
        linkBCO: >= 64k insns in BCO

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

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$ ghci --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.10.1
$ uname -a
Linux ogum 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 00:13:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

I've attached the offending file, here's the md5sum:

$ md5sum 18.hs 
1594c7d5522d0b1d7f1a70f6f3dfc24a  18.hs

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.10.1
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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