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I'm getting a panic from runghc. The program I'm compiling has a syntax error in the LANGUAGE pragma, but I still think I should get an error message instead of a panic.

I'm using ghc-6.10.2 compiled from vanilla sources (with extralibs and a few options in build.mk) on an amd64 debian etch linux system.

Below you can see a transscript of the compilation including the panic message, and the source code.

[am]king ~/a/tmp$ runghc Bug
ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 6.10.2 for x86_64-unknown-linux):
	getOptions'.parseLanguage(2) went past eof token

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

1[am]king ~/a/tmp$ cat Bug.hs
{-# LANGUAGE - #-}
main = return ();
[am]king ~/a/tmp$ cat -A Bug.hs
{-# LANGUAGE - #-}$
main = return ();$
[am]king ~/a/tmp$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../gcc-4.3.3/configure --enable-languages=c,c++
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) 
[am]king ~/a/tmp$ runghc -v -dcore-lint Bug
Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.10.2, for Haskell 98, stage 2 booted by GHC version 6.10.1
Using package config file: /usr/local/ghc/lib/ghc-6.10.2/./package.conf
hiding package base-3.0.3.1 to avoid conflict with later version base-4.1.0.0
wired-in package ghc-prim mapped to ghc-prim-0.1.0.0
wired-in package integer mapped to integer-0.1.0.1
wired-in package base mapped to base-4.1.0.0
wired-in package rts mapped to rts-1.0
wired-in package haskell98 mapped to haskell98-1.0.1.0
wired-in package syb mapped to syb-0.1.0.1
wired-in package template-haskell mapped to template-haskell-2.3.0.1
wired-in package dph-seq mapped to dph-seq-0.3
wired-in package dph-par mapped to dph-par-0.3
Hsc static flags: -ignore-dot-ghci -static
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
*** Chasing dependencies:
Chasing modules from: 
Stable obj: []
Stable BCO: []
unload: retaining objs []
unload: retaining bcos []
Ready for upsweep []
Upsweep completely successful.
*** Deleting temp files:
Deleting: 
*** Chasing dependencies:
Chasing modules from: *Bug.hs
ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 6.10.2 for x86_64-unknown-linux):
	getOptions'.parseLanguage(2) went past eof token

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

*** Deleting temp files:
Deleting: 
*** Deleting temp dirs:
Deleting: 
1[am]king ~/a/tmp$ 

(I found this bug when I tried to start a program with {-# LANGUAGE -XPatternGuards #-}.)

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.10.2
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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