#2725: Remove Hack in compiler/nativeGen/X86/CodeGen.hs -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: clemens | Owner: thoughtpolice Type: task | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: 8.10.1 Component: Compiler (NCG) | Version: 6.11 Resolution: | Keywords: codegen 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 hsyl20):

I have just (2015/03/03) written a shell script (attached) that tests for binutils support for 64 bit pc-relative relocatons. The test passes on *all* modern linux systems, but fails on Mac OSX (Mavericks) and OpenBSD 5.5 (current is 5.6). The failure is one OpenBSD says:

According to https://www.openbsd.org/58.html, since OpenBSD 5.8 (2015-10-18), binutils have been upgraded to 2.17.

OSX has the linker from LLVM which theoretically could be fixed.

LLD handles them since 2015-02-24 (https://reviews.llvm.org/rL230465). First release containing the patch: 3.7 (2015-09-01). Maybe we should revisit? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2725#comment:27 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler