#9907: "Unknown PEi386 section name `.text$printf'" error in GHCi on Windows -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: mmikolajczyk | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: GHCi | Version: 7.8.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: GHCi crash | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #7103, #10051, | Differential Revisions: Phab:D671 #7056, #8546 | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by ezyang): * owner: Phyx- => * status: closed => new * resolution: fixed => Comment: I am reopening this ticket, because by suppressing these errors we have opened up users to a more pernicious situation: GHC silently ignores a section it doesn't understand (failing to map it into memory) when a program ACTUALLY needs it to function. Previously, it was pretty obvious that something bad had happened and it was because GHC didn't support a section, but now the errors can be a lot more obscure, e.g. #10672 and #10563. Is there any reason we can't take an alternate approach, where by default we attempt to map in ALL sections in an object file, except ones we've specifically blacklisted? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9907#comment:12 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler