Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.2 release candidate 1

Thanks! As you say - not a regression over 8.0.2, but is a regression over 8.0.1 (albeit a very conscious one). -- Mathieu Boespflug Founder at http://tweag.io. On 3 October 2017 at 00:01, Ben Gamari wrote:

"Boespflug, Mathieu" writes:

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Hi Ben,

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13702 break projects like sparkle and others, since they crucially rely on PIE, in this case to dynamically load executables in the JVM. It looks like you committed a fix for this in HEAD. Any chance you could backport this to the GHC 8.2 branch?

Sorry for the delay; I had to mull this over as I'm a bit weary since this is not a strict regression over 8.0. However, I'm sympathetic since this is a rather recent regression (introduced in 8.0.2) and the patch is quite low-risk. I'll merge.

Cheers,

- Ben