[GHC] #8696: linking fails with 'relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against undefined symbol'

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#8696: linking fails with 'relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against undefined symbol'
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        Reporter:  Kata      |            Owner:
            Type:  bug       |           Status:  new
        Priority:  highest   |        Milestone:  7.8.1
       Component:  Compiler  |          Version:  7.8.1-rc1
      Resolution:            |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Linux     |     Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)
 Type of failure:  Other     |       Difficulty:  Unknown
       Test Case:            |       Blocked By:
        Blocking:            |  Related Tickets:
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Comment (by duncan):

 Replying to [comment:19 carter]:
 > how would that impact compilation time? (using the bytecode versions?)

 It'd increase it a bit because we'd have to generate and retain the
 bytecode. The factors are:

  * we only need to do it for sets of modules involving TH & QQ
  * we could do it just for the modules that are dependencies of modules
 using TH
  * however we may have to run the pipeline twice because the bytecode
 generator cannot handle -O results (because of unboxed tuples etc). Though
 in principle we only need to do that for when you build with -O, and it
 doesn't have to re-run all stages.

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