On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Austin Seipp wrote:
There have been a few of these bugs recently it seems. If you could: use the stage1 compiler to compile a simple executable, like 'main = return ()' or hello world or whatever.
The stage1 compiler can be located in the build directory, under 'inplace/bin/ghc-stage1'. So something like:
<GHC BUILD>/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1 -fforce-recomp hello_world.hs
Check if the output executable crashes immediately. If it does, then it is likely a miscompilation of the runtime or libraries somewhere. Otherwise, we'll have to narrow down another way.
$ inplace/bin/ghc-stage1 -fforce-recomp /tmp/Main.hs [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( /tmp/Main.hs, /tmp/Main.o ) Linking /tmp/Main ... $ /tmp/Main Segmentation fault
If it does fail, please use GDB on the executable, and give a backtrace from the crash (using the 'bt' command, after the program has crashed.)
I'll get back to you on this.
You can also try linking with the debug RTS, by passing the -debug and -rtsopts flag to ghc-stage1. Then run again, and see if something else was tripped. You can see all the sanity checks you can enable, if you run the executable using './program.exe +RTS --help'. The debug flags are named things like '-Ds' and '-Da', etc and should be passed to the RTS.
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