#8834: 64-bit windows cabal.exe segfaults in GC ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- Reporter: awson | Owner: jstolarek Type: bug | Status: patch Priority: highest | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) Type of failure: Runtime crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- Comment (by Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@…>): In [changeset:"a79613a75c7da0d3d225850382f0f578a07113b5/ghc"]: {{{ #!CommitTicketReference repository="ghc" revision="a79613a75c7da0d3d225850382f0f578a07113b5" Revert ad15c2, which causes Windows seg-faults (Trac #8834) We don't yet understand WHY commit ad15c2, which is to do with CmmSink, causes seg-faults on Windows, but it certainly seems to. So reverting it is a stop-gap, but we need to un-block the 7.8 release. Many thanks to awson for identifying the offending commit. }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8834#comment:49> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler