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Malformed LANGUAGE pragma causes GHC panic

Hi, I tried to compile file starting with {-# LANGUAGE -XExistentialQuantification #-} which is of course wrong, but GHC should handle this more gracefully than

ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)

(GHC version 6.10.2 for i386-unknown-linux):

getOptions'.parseLanguage(2) went past eof token

The 6.8.2 version surprisingly works better:

test.hs:1:0: cannot parse LANGUAGE pragma

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Version 6.10.2
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler (Parser)
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