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RecordWildCards panic

GHC 7.4.1 (Debian 7.7 and Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS) panics with:

ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 7.4.1 for i386-unknown-linux):
	compiler/rename/RnPat.lhs:535:39-79: Irrefutable pattern failed for pattern gres@(gre : _)

I found a minimal test case to exemplify this issue:

module Foo where

import Bar (Bar (Bar))

foo :: Bar -> ()
foo Bar {..} = ()
module Bar where

data Bar = Bar { barA :: Int, barB :: Int }

A workaround is to import all data fields in module Foo:

import Bar (Bar (..))

I also tried this with GHC 7.6.3 (Mac OS X), with no warnings nor errors.

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Version 7.4.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler
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