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authorBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2018-11-26 17:21:12 -0500
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2018-11-27 14:25:03 -0500
commit730ac880c5dc23e0f32a2f08d89d4e5d2a583512 (patch)
treeaa85ded8d0edd3d465963c8b3870b8270628ae30 /compiler/main/SysTools/BaseDir.hs
parentdf570d920fa66db631f936fa377e598fe92bd2a1 (diff)
downloadhaskell-wip/kill-obj-splitter.tar.gz
Rip out object splittingwip/kill-obj-splitter
The splitter is an evil Perl script that processes assembler code. Its job can be done better by the linker's --gc-sections flag. GHC passes this flag to the linker whenever -split-sections is passed on the command line. This is based on @DemiMarie's D2768. Fixes Trac #11315 Fixes Trac #9832 Fixes Trac #8964 Fixes Trac #8685 Fixes Trac #8629
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@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ On Windows:
from topdir we can find package.conf, ghc-asm, etc.
-Note [tooldir: How GHC finds mingw and perl on Windows]
+Note [tooldir: How GHC finds mingw on Windows]
GHC has some custom logic on Windows for finding the mingw
toolchain and perl. Depending on whether GHC is built