split_marker crash

[Phyx]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 8:33 PM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:

> Andreas Klebinger <klebinger.andreas at gmx.at> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm fine with reverting for now. But could you give me a way to
> > reproduce this error?
> >
> > I've not seen crashes on either linux and windows in various configs.
> >
> I suspect that Simon is building with SplitObjects enabled. To be
> honest, I would really like to remove this feature; SplitSections is
> better in nearly every regard. However, we have been stalled since
> SplitSections doesn't quite work yet on Windows (or, IIRC, the toolchain
> is prohibitively slow when it's used). I believe Tamar was working on
> fixing this.
>

SplitObjects has been off in favor of SplitSections on Windows since Aug.
https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/23774c98f1368b41515cbd5223b87ea6dbf644e1

SplitObjects is not usable on Windows anymore so it was disabled
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15051


> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
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