"can't find atom for stabs BNSYM at 0000AF80 in /Users/carter/dev-checkouts/ghc-tree/ghc-8.6.X-checkout-clang-build/libraries/base/dist-install/build/libHSbase-4.12.0.0.a(Internals.o)"

which corresponds with this code in the apple linker

i dont know to what to make of this