#9142: LLVM HEAD rejects aliases used by LLVM codegen -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: bgamari | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment (by scpmw): Not quite sure I understand how your patch works - isn't this basically allocating a bunch of static null-initialized `i8` fields to point to? That's hardly what we want, even if it compiles. It would be really interesting to get a statement from LLVM people on this. If they think that we are mis-using aliases, that's reason enough to do something else. One possible solution that occurred to me was that we could use type aliases - but instead of writing the definitions at the end of the session we'd close the file and /prepend/ them. That could be a cheap and easy way to get the LLVM parser to like us again. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9142#comment:4 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler