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TcTyFuns.flattenType: unexpected PredType

type family Garbage y
type instance Garbage y = [Num y => y]

yields

*Main> undefined :: Garbage Int
ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 6.10.1 for x86_64-unknown-linux):
    TcTyFuns.flattenType: unexpected PredType

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

While its perfectly reasonable to die out on garbage like this, a less apocalyptic error message might be nice.

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