Evaluate backtraces for "error" exceptions at the moment they are thrown
Evaluate backtraces for "error" exceptions at the moment they are thrown
See Note [Capturing the backtrace in throw] and
Note [Hiding precise exception signature in throw] which explain the
implementation.
This commit makes `error` and `throw` behave the same with regard to
backtraces. Previously, exceptiosn raised by `error` would not contain
useful IPE backtraces.
I did try and implement `error` in terms of `throw` but it started to
involve putting diverging functions into hs-boot files, which seemed to
risky if the compiler wouldn't be able to see if applying a function
would diverge.
Fixes #26751 (closed) and #25430
Edited by Matthew Pickering