<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Carter Schonwald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carter.schonwald@gmail.com" target="_blank">carter.schonwald@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It *seemed* to work fine even with that lib no longer at that path, but famous last words. It does seem that it doesn't do anything </blockquote></div><br>It's only used when it needs to do something for which the CPU lacks support so a call to an emulation is used instead of trying to generate native code for it. Maybe you got lucky and ghc doesn't actually need it in its C bits. Or maybe it'll explode only when there's a full moon in Scorpio and Mars is ascendant. :/ (Well, when some rarely used operation happens to need something that x86_64 needs help with. I don't think there are many of those --- which means it's going to be an even rarer explosion.)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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