GHC API should emit a suitable error message when interpreter is used with -prof

When compiling a program with the -prof flag executing the program fails with:

hintBug: internal error: PAP object entered!
    (GHC version 6.12.3 for i386_unknown_linux)
    Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
Aborted

i.e ghc --make program.hs works, ghc --make -prof program.hs doesn't.

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.12.3
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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Operating system	Linux
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Edited Mar 09, 2019 by Simon Marlow

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GHC API should emit a suitable error message when interpreter is used with -prof