split_marker crash

[Simon Peyton Jones]

I do indeed have SplitObs=YES in my validate.mk.
In the past at least, that made binaries quite a bit smaller.
Happy to change it to SplitSections=YES if that is more kosher these days?

Simon

From: Andreas Klebinger <klebinger.andreas at gmx.at>
Sent: 19 November 2018 20:38
To: Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>
Cc: Phyx <lonetiger at gmail.com>; Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>; ghc-devs at haskell.org
Subject: Re: split_marker crash

I might already have found the specific cause.

It seems with split sections we generate a dummy CmmProc, which has as entry label
> error (split_sections_entry)

My patch likely introduces strictness on that field where it was lazy before.
If this is the cause I expect to have a patch up in a hour or two and will merge
it after it validates.

Cheers,
Andreas

Ben Gamari schrieb:


Andreas Klebinger <klebinger.andreas at gmx.at><mailto:klebinger.andreas at gmx.at> writes:



Hello,



I'm fine with reverting for now. But could you give me a way to

reproduce this error?



I've not seen crashes on either linux and windows in various configs.



I suspect that Simon is building with SplitObjects enabled. To be

honest, I would really like to remove this feature; SplitSections is

better in nearly every regard. However, we have been stalled since

SplitSections doesn't quite work yet on Windows (or, IIRC, the toolchain

is prohibitively slow when it's used). I believe Tamar was working on

fixing this.



Cheers,



- Ben

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