haskell / haskell/error-messages
Make it simpler to identify that the RTS is causing an error
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When debugging an error it is very important to identify the "speaker" who emitted the error message.
For example, I recently had to figure out which tool causes the following error on the command line:
```
Hpc failure: module mismatch with .tix/.mix file hash number
(perhaps remove Example.tix file?)
```
After some search it turned out that the the error originates from the GHC runtime system. Errors coming from GHC are already easily identifiable by the `[GHC-XXXX]` prefix, stack and ghcup have implemented the same convention, and cabal will soon follow suit in [version 3.12](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/8543#issuecomment-1703860969).
I don't think it is necessary to go to the great lengths as the structured error message proposal for GHC, but maybe it would be possible to go through the C code of the RTS and make sure that every error message emitted by the RTS identifies itself as such, maybe by a prefix like `[GHC-RTS]` or something like that.
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