add FastString.string_table to CoreMonad.reinitializeGlobals?

[Nicolas Frisby]

FYI — I just pushed this; validation went through, and a simple test of the
new functionality succeeds.

I put a verbose comment in Note [Initializing globals] in CoreMonad.

commit 163de25813d12764aa5ded1666af7c06fee0d67e
Author: Nicolas Frisby <nicolas.frisby at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 3 18:23:54 2013 -0500

    include FastString.string_table in CoreMonad.reinitializeGlobals



On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>wrote:

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> Reading your (excellent) reply to Joachim, that would be an excellent
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> Please comment it copiously with a concrete example (a la Joachim).****
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> Simon****
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> *From:* ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org]
> *On Behalf Of *Nicolas Frisby
> *Sent:* 03 July 2013 20:22
> *To:* ghc-devs at haskell.org
> *Subject:* add FastString.string_table to CoreMonad.reinitializeGlobals?**
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> Was the FastString Table intentionally left out of the reinitializeGlobals
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> This has lead to some confusion in using pieces of the front-end within
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> Is there foreseeable harm in adding it? I've done so locally, and minimal
> testing seems fine.****
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> Thanks.****
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