split_marker crash

[Ben Gamari]

Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org> writes:

> I do indeed have SplitObs=YES in my validate.mk.
>
Ahh, so perhaps Andreas's finding isn't the culprit afterall. Looking at
the source it looks like `split_marker_entry` is indeed emitted for split
objects support.c

> In the past at least, that made binaries quite a bit smaller.
> Happy to change it to SplitSections=YES if that is more kosher these days?
>
We generally recommend SplitSections at this point. Not only is it
simpler, but it may reduce build times, result in smaller binaries, and
generally stays closer to what C compilers do, avoiding toolchain bugs.

Cheers,

- Ben
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