Re: split_marker crash

Phyx writes:

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 8:33 PM Ben Gamari wrote:

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Andreas Klebinger writes:

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Hello,

I'm fine with reverting for now. But could you give me a way to reproduce this error?

I've not seen crashes on either linux and windows in various configs.

I suspect that Simon is building with SplitObjects enabled. To be honest, I would really like to remove this feature; SplitSections is better in nearly every regard. However, we have been stalled since SplitSections doesn't quite work yet on Windows (or, IIRC, the toolchain is prohibitively slow when it's used). I believe Tamar was working on fixing this.

SplitObjects has been off in favor of SplitSections on Windows since Aug. https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/23774c98f1368b41515cbd5223b87ea6dbf644e1

Ahh, I had forgotten about this. I'll need to check this when I'm back home but I suspect this means that we can finally rip out (or at least deprecate) split object support for 8.8. Cheers, - Ben