[GHC] #9142: LLVM HEAD rejects aliases used by LLVM codegen

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#9142: LLVM HEAD rejects aliases  used by LLVM codegen
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              Reporter:  bgamari     |             Owner:
                  Type:  bug         |            Status:  new
              Priority:  high        |         Milestone:  7.10.1
             Component:  Compiler    |           Version:  7.8.2
            Resolution:              |          Keywords:
Differential Revisions:              |  Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple
          Architecture:              |   Type of failure:  None/Unknown
  Unknown/Multiple                   |         Test Case:
            Difficulty:  Unknown     |          Blocking:  4213
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Comment (by bgamari):

 Never mind, of course that won't work: the extern symbols under this
 scheme would be pointing to non-existent `$alias` symbols. If we instead
 change the names of the definitions themselves and then allow the aliases
 to take the actual names, this plan might have a chance of working.
 Haven't yet thought about what this would require.

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