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Windows/appveyor hang/crash related to unicode syntax and SPECIALIZE warning, GHC 8.4.4 and 8.6.5
## Summary GHC on Windows on the appveyor CI service gets stuck in a bad way building [text-printer-0.5](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-printer-0.5), related to a warning on a `SPECIALIZE` pragma. Compare https://github.com/mvv/text-printer/issues/1. The warning output preceding the hang is as follows. (The replacement character is due to use of a literal alpha (α) in the source code, but does not appear to be involved in the bug.) ``` src\Text\Printer\Integral.hs:656:1: [;1mwarning:[;1m[;1m Forall'd constraint `Ord �' is not bound in RULE lhs Orig bndrs: [�, p, $dOrd_amc3, $dIntegral_amc4, $dPrinter_amc5] Orig lhs: let { $dPrinter_amcc :: Printer p [LclId] $dPrinter_amcc = $dPrinter_amc5 } in let { $dIntegral_amcb :: Integral � [LclId] $dIntegral_amcb = $dIntegral_amc4 } in let { $dPositionalSystem_amc9 :: PositionalSystem Binary [LclId] $dPositionalSystem_amc9 = Text.Printer.Integral.$fPositionalSystemBinary } in let { $dReal_aow8 :: Real � [LclId] $dReal_aow8 = GHC.Real.$p1Integral @ � $dIntegral_amc4 } in let { $dOrd_aowb :: Ord � [LclId] $dOrd_aowb = GHC.Real.$p2Real @ � $dReal_aow8 } in let { $dOrd_amca :: Ord � [LclId] $dOrd_amca = $dOrd_aowb } in number' @ Binary @ � @ p $dPositionalSystem_amc9 $dOrd_amca $dIntegral_amcb $dPrinter_amcc optimised lhs: number' @ Binary @ � @ p $dPositionalSystem_amc9 $dOrd_amca $dIntegral_amc4 $dPrinter_amc5 ``` The build completes fine after removing the redundant Ord constraint. ## Steps to reproduce Probably, it's enough to try building text-printer-0.5 on Windows. But the following is how I get it to fail: 1. fork github.com/mvv/text-printer on github 2. set up appveyor integration for that fork 3. fetch and push the branch `windows-broken` from github.com/robx/text-printer The build should get stuck (not fail) after printing the SPECIALIZE warning. ## Expected behavior The build should complete successfully. ## Environment * GHC version used: GHC 8.4.4, GHC 8.6.5 I used these by building with stackage lts-12.26 and lts-13.27. Optional: * Operating System: Windows * System Architecture: x64 (appveyor platform field)
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