#12388: Don't barf on failures in the RTS linker -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: dobenour | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: Runtime System | Version: 8.0.1 (Linker) | Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by simonmar): Something that might help here is gcc's cleanup attribute: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html which gives you some of the benefits of RAII in plain C. Going to C++ even for a small bit of the codebase would be a big step because we would have to use g++ as the linker and we get dependencies on C++ standard libs etc. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12388#comment:4 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler