condensed summary of vanilla mojave ghc 8.6.2 errors with clang

[Carter Schonwald]

andreask pointed out that large amounts of dwarf code might overflow a
signed 32 bit or 16 bit field in object code, it looks like thats what
happens

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:21 PM Carter Schonwald <
carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> it looks like after the 8.6.2 release there was some fixes cherry picked
> into the 8.6 branch for the Mach O linker that I believe were the cause of
> the errors i've been seeing, i'm doing a fresh build to confirm
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:03 PM Carter Schonwald <
> carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the vast majority of the errors i previously shared seem to be
>>
>> "can't find atom for stabs BNSYM at 0000AF80 in
>> /Users/carter/dev-checkouts/ghc-tree/ghc-8.6.X-checkout-clang-build/libraries/base/dist-install/build/libHSbase-4.12.0.0.a(Internals.o)"
>>
>> which corresponds with this code in the apple linker
>>
>> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lld/blob/master/lib/ReaderWriter/MachO/MachONormalizedFileToAtoms.cpp#L749
>>
>> i dont know to what to make of this
>>
>>
>>
>>
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