[Git][ghc/ghc][wip/T26746] 19 commits: Support statically linking executables properly

Simon Peyton Jones pushed to branch wip/T26746 at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: 1ac1a541 by Julian Ospald at 2026-01-09T02:48:53-05:00 Support statically linking executables properly Fixes #26434 In detail, this does a number of things: * Makes GHC aware of 'extra-libraries-static' (this changes the package database format). * Adds a switch '-static-external' that will honour 'extra-libraries-static' to link external system dependencies statically. * Adds a new field to settings/targets: "ld supports verbatim namespace". This field is used by '-static-external' to conditionally use '-l:foo.a' syntax during linking, which is more robust than trying to find the absolute path to an archive on our own. * Adds a switch '-fully-static' that is meant as a high-level interface for e.g. cabal. This also honours 'extra-libraries-static'. This also attempts to clean up the confusion around library search directories. At the moment, we have 3 types of directories in the package database format: * library-dirs * library-dirs-static * dynamic-library-dirs However, we only have two types of linking: dynamic or static. Given the existing logic in 'mungeDynLibFields', this patch assumes that 'library-dirs' is really just nothing but a fallback and always prefers the more specific variants if they exist and are non-empty. Conceptually, we should be ok with even just one search dirs variant. Haskell libraries are named differently depending on whether they're static or dynamic, so GHC can conveniently pick the right one depending on the linking needs. That means we don't really need to play tricks with search paths to convince the compiler to do linking as we want it. For system C libraries, the convention has been anyway to place static and dynamic libs next to each other, so we need to deal with that issue anyway and it is outside of our control. But this is out of the scope of this patch. This patch is backwards compatible with cabal. Cabal should however be patched to use the new '-fully-static' switch. - - - - - ad3c808d by Julian Ospald at 2026-01-09T02:48:53-05:00 Warn when "-dynamic" is mixed with "-staticlib" - - - - - 322dd672 by Matthew Pickering at 2026-01-09T02:49:35-05:00 rts: Use INFO_TABLE_CONSTR for stg_dummy_ret_closure Since the closure type is CONSTR_NOCAF, we need to use INFO_TABLE_CONSTR to populate the constructor description field (this crashes ghc-debug when decoding AP_STACK frames sometimes) Fixes #26745 - - - - - 039bac4c by Ben Gamari at 2026-01-09T20:22:16-05:00 ghc-internal: Move STM utilities out of GHC.Internal.Conc.Sync This is necessary to avoid an import cycle on Windows when importing `GHC.Internal.Exception.Context` in `GHC.Internal.Conc.Sync`. On the road to address #25365. - - - - - 8c389e8c by Ben Gamari at 2026-01-09T20:22:16-05:00 base: Capture backtrace from throwSTM Implements core-libraries-committee#297. Fixes #25365. - - - - - e1ce1fc3 by Ben Gamari at 2026-01-09T20:22:16-05:00 base: Annotate rethrown exceptions in catchSTM with WhileHandling Implements core-libraries-committee#298 - - - - - c4ebdbdf by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-09T20:23:06-05:00 compiler: make getPrim eagerly evaluate its result This commit makes `GHC.Utils.Binary.getPrim` eagerly evaluate its result, to avoid accidental laziness when future patches build other binary parsers using `getPrim`. - - - - - 66a0c4f7 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-09T20:23:06-05:00 compiler: implement fast get/put for Word16/Word32/Word64 Previously, `GHC.Utils.Binary` contains `get`/`put` functions for `Word16`/`Word32`/`Word64` which always loads and stores them as big-endian words at a potentially unaligned address. The previous implementation is based on loads/stores of individual bytes and concatenating bytes with bitwise operations, which currently cannot be fused to a single load/store operation by GHC. This patch implements fast `get`/`put` functions for `Word16`/`Word32`/`Word64` based on a single memory load/store, with an additional `byteSwap` operation on little-endian hosts. It is based on unaligned load/store primops added since GHC 9.10, and we already require booting with at least 9.10, so it's about time to switch to this faster path. - - - - - 641ec3f0 by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-01-09T20:23:55-05:00 Fix scoping errors in specialisation Using -fspecialise-aggressively in #26682 showed up a couple of subtle errors in the type-class specialiser. * dumpBindUDs failed to call `deleteCallsMentioning`, resulting in a call that mentioned a dictionary that was not in scope. This call has been missing since 2009! commit c43c981705ec33da92a9ce91eb90f2ecf00be9fe Author: Simon Peyton Jones Date: Fri Oct 23 16:15:51 2009 +0000 Fixed by re-combining `dumpBindUDs` and `dumpUDs`. * I think there was another bug involving the quantified type variables in polymorphic specialisation. In any case I refactored `specHeader` and `spec_call` so that the former looks for the extra quantified type variables rather than the latter. This is quite a worthwhile simplification: less code, easier to grok. Test case in simplCore/should_compile/T26682, brilliantly minimised by @sheaf. - - - - - 2433e91d by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-09T20:24:43-05:00 compiler: change sectionProtection to take SectionType argument This commit changes `sectionProtection` to only take `SectionType` argument instead of whole `Section`, since it doesn't need the Cmm section content anyway, and it can then be called in parts of NCG where we only have a `SectionType` in scope. - - - - - e5926fbe by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-09T20:24:43-05:00 compiler: change isInitOrFiniSection to take SectionType argument This commit changes `isInitOrFiniSection` to only take `SectionType` argument instead of whole `Section`, since it doesn't need the Cmm section content anyway, and it can then be called in parts of NCG where we only have a `SectionType` in scope. Also marks it as exported. - - - - - 244d57d7 by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-09T20:24:43-05:00 compiler: fix split sections on windows This patch fixes split sections on windows by emitting the right COMDAT section header in NCG, see added comment for more explanation. Fix #26696 #26494. ------------------------- Metric Decrease: LargeRecord T9675 size_hello_artifact size_hello_artifact_gzip size_hello_unicode size_hello_unicode_gzip Metric Increase: T13035 ------------------------- Co-authored-by: Codex - - - - - 182f3d0f by Cheng Shao at 2026-01-09T20:25:28-05:00 iserv: add comment about -fkeep-cafs - - - - - 49675b69 by Matthew Craven at 2026-01-09T20:26:14-05:00 Account for "stupid theta" in demand sig for DataCon wrappers Fixes #26748. - - - - - f3c18890 by Samuel Thibault at 2026-01-10T15:48:22+01:00 hurd: Fix getExecutablePath build 3939a8bf93e27 ("GNU/Hurd: Add getExecutablePath support") added using /proc/self/exe for GNU/Hurd but missed adding the required imports for the corresponding code. - - - - - 7f15bd15 by Samuel Thibault at 2026-01-12T07:16:25-05:00 Fix the OS string encoding for GNU/Hurd Following https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9434/files , and as seen in the various gnu_HOST_OS usages in the source code, it is expected that GNU/Hurd is advertised as "gnu", like the autotools do. - - - - - 1db2f240 by Andrew Lelechenko at 2026-01-12T07:17:06-05:00 Add since annotation for Data.Bifoldable1 Fixes #26432 - - - - - e038a383 by Sven Tennie at 2026-01-12T07:17:49-05:00 Ignore Windows CI tool directories in Git Otherwise, we see thousands of changes in `git status` which is very confusing to work with. - - - - - 015523a3 by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-01-13T10:30:29+00:00 Improve newtype unwrapping Ticket #26746 describes several relatively-minor shortcomings of newtype unwrapping. This MR addresses them, while also (arguably) simplifying the code a bit. See new Note [Solving newtype equalities: overview] and Note [Decomposing newtype equalities] and Note [Eager newtype decomposition] and Note [Even more eager newtype decomposition] - - - - - 104 changed files: - .gitignore - compiler/GHC/Cmm.hs - compiler/GHC/Cmm/InitFini.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/AArch64/Ppr.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/Ppr.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/Wasm/FromCmm.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/X86/Ppr.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToC.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToLlvm/Data.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/FamInstEnv.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Opt/Specialise.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Backpack.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Config/Interpreter.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Downsweep.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/DynFlags.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Pipeline.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Session.hs - compiler/GHC/Linker/Dynamic.hs - compiler/GHC/Linker/Executable.hs - compiler/GHC/Linker/Loader.hs - compiler/GHC/Linker/Unit.hs - compiler/GHC/Settings.hs - compiler/GHC/Settings/IO.hs - compiler/GHC/StgToJS/Linker/Utils.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Instance/Family.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Equality.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Monad.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/Id/Make.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/Info.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/State.hs - compiler/GHC/Utils/Binary.hs - configure.ac - distrib/configure.ac.in - docs/users_guide/phases.rst - ghc/Main.hs - hadrian/cfg/default.host.target.in - hadrian/cfg/default.target.in - hadrian/src/Settings/Builders/Cabal.hs - libraries/base/changelog.md - libraries/base/src/Data/Bifoldable1.hs - libraries/base/src/GHC/Conc.hs - libraries/base/src/GHC/Conc/Sync.hs - libraries/ghc-boot/GHC/Unit/Database.hs - libraries/ghc-internal/ghc-internal.buildinfo.in - libraries/ghc-internal/ghc-internal.cabal.in - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Conc/IO.hs - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Conc/POSIX.hs - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Conc/Sync.hs - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Conc/Sync.hs-boot - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Conc/Windows.hs - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Event/Thread.hs - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Event/Windows/Thread.hs - + libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/STM.hs - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/System/Environment/ExecutablePath.hsc - libraries/ghc-platform/src/GHC/Platform/ArchOS.hs - + m4/fp_linker_supports_verbatim.m4 - m4/prep_target_file.m4 - mk/system-cxx-std-lib-1.0.conf.in - rts/StgMiscClosures.cmm - rts/configure.ac - rts/rts.buildinfo.in - rts/rts.cabal - + testsuite/driver/_elffile.py - testsuite/driver/testglobals.py - testsuite/driver/testlib.py - testsuite/ghc-config/ghc-config.hs - testsuite/tests/deriving/should_fail/T8984.stderr - testsuite/tests/deriving/should_fail/deriving-via-fail.stderr - testsuite/tests/deriving/should_fail/deriving-via-fail4.stderr - testsuite/tests/deriving/should_fail/deriving-via-fail5.stderr - + testsuite/tests/dmdanal/should_run/T26748.hs - + testsuite/tests/dmdanal/should_run/T26748.stdout - testsuite/tests/dmdanal/should_run/all.T - + testsuite/tests/driver/fully-static/Hello.hs - + testsuite/tests/driver/fully-static/Makefile - + testsuite/tests/driver/fully-static/all.T - + testsuite/tests/driver/fully-static/fully-static.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/fully-static/test/Test.hs - + testsuite/tests/driver/fully-static/test/test.pkg - + testsuite/tests/driver/mostly-static/Hello.hs - + testsuite/tests/driver/mostly-static/Makefile - + testsuite/tests/driver/mostly-static/all.T - + testsuite/tests/driver/mostly-static/mostly-static.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/mostly-static/test/test.c - + testsuite/tests/driver/mostly-static/test/test.h - + testsuite/tests/driver/mostly-static/test/test.pkg - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/base-exports.stdout - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/base-exports.stdout-javascript-unknown-ghcjs - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/base-exports.stdout-mingw32 - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/base-exports.stdout-ws-32 - + testsuite/tests/simplCore/should_compile/T26682.hs - + testsuite/tests/simplCore/should_compile/T26682a.hs - testsuite/tests/simplCore/should_compile/all.T - + testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_compile/T26746.hs - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_compile/all.T - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/T15801.stderr - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/T22924b.stderr - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/TcCoercibleFail.hs - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/TcCoercibleFail.stderr - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/all.T - utils/ghc-pkg/Main.hs - utils/ghc-toolchain/exe/Main.hs - utils/ghc-toolchain/src/GHC/Toolchain/Tools/Link.hs - utils/iserv/iserv.cabal.in The diff was not included because it is too large. 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