FYI — I just pushed this; validation went through, and a simple test of the new functionality succeeds. I put a verbose comment in Note [Initializing globals] in CoreMonad. commit 163de25813d12764aa5ded1666af7c06fee0d67e Author: Nicolas Frisby Date: Wed Jul 3 18:23:54 2013 -0500 include FastString.string_table in CoreMonad.reinitializeGlobals On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

Nick****

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Reading your (excellent) reply to Joachim, that would be an excellent thing to do.****

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Please comment it copiously with a concrete example (a la Joachim).****

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Simon****

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*From:* ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] *On Behalf Of *Nicolas Frisby *Sent:* 03 July 2013 20:22 *To:* ghc-devs@haskell.org *Subject:* add FastString.string_table to CoreMonad.reinitializeGlobals?** **

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Was the FastString Table intentionally left out of the reinitializeGlobals mechanism?****

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This has lead to some confusion in using pieces of the front-end within GHC plugins. ****

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Is there foreseeable harm in adding it? I've done so locally, and minimal testing seems fine.****

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Thanks.****