[commit: ghc] ghc-8.6: users guide: We no longer build libraries with -split-objs (14ae4ab)

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Repository : ssh://git@git.haskell.org/ghc

On branch  : ghc-8.6
Link       : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/14ae4ab6d2ffc907ffe0a438acc51c614b72140e/ghc

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commit 14ae4ab6d2ffc907ffe0a438acc51c614b72140e
Author: Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 21 19:17:41 2018 -0500

    users guide: We no longer build libraries with -split-objs
    
    We now generally use split-sections instead.
    
    (cherry picked from commit f5fbecc85967218fd8ba6512f10eea2daf2812ac)


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14ae4ab6d2ffc907ffe0a438acc51c614b72140e
 docs/users_guide/phases.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/phases.rst b/docs/users_guide/phases.rst
index 27948e7..48cd3e7 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/phases.rst
+++ b/docs/users_guide/phases.rst
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ for example).
     However, assembling all the sections separately is expensive, so
     this is slower than compiling normally. Additionally, the size of
     the library itself (the ``.a`` file) can be a factor of 2 to 2.5
-    larger. We use this feature for building GHC's libraries.
+    larger.
 
 .. ghc-flag:: -split-sections
     :shortdesc: Split sections for link-time dead-code stripping



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