The issue came up in this thread on glasgow-haskell-users.

Steps to reproduce:

-- file Foo.hs
import Control.Exception
import Control.DeepSeq
main = evaluate (('a' : undefined) `deepseq` return () :: IO ())

$ ghc -fforce-recomp -fpedantic-bottoms -O Foo.hs

Expected result:

The program should fail with:

Foo: Prelude.undefined

Actual result:

The program succeeds.

Compiling the program with -fno-state-hack helps.