[GHC] #12147: GHC's Linker Should Support Relocation Type 42

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#12147: GHC's Linker Should Support Relocation Type 42
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        Reporter:  gershomb          |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  merge
        Priority:  high              |            Milestone:  8.0.2
       Component:  Runtime System    |              Version:  8.0.1
  (Linker)                           |
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:
Operating System:  Linux             |         Architecture:
                                     |  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):  Phab:D2303
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Comment (by kaiha):

 Replying to [comment:13 thomie]:
 >
 > Quoting @erikd in https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2303#67070:
 > > I'm pretty sure that will be handled by the Linux distros. They
 wouldn't ship an GNU `as` until their `glibc` handled these new
 relocations.
 >
 > We have our first victim of this assumption:
 https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian/issues/259#issuecomment-224618414.

 This is the victim speaking. I experienced this problem on a Debian
 testing. So I think that the assumption of @erikd remains valid as long as
 we consider only stable Linux distributions.

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