[GHC] #12995: interpetBCO doesn't get stripped from executables

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#12995: interpetBCO doesn't get stripped from executables
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        Reporter:  olsner            |                Owner:
            Type:  task              |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Runtime System    |              Version:  8.0.1
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:  footprint
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
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 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
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Comment (by simonmar):

 The proposed solution in the ticket doesn't work out easily, I think,
 because the reference to `interpretBCO` would move from the scheduler to
 the entry code for BCO.  So the BCO code needs to move into a separate
 file.  Maybe things can be unravelled sufficiently, or maybe they get too
 tangled, I'm not sure.

 Adding another RTS way dimension seems too heavyweight a solution for this
 problem.

 Speaking of which, how much do we really care about this?  How many Kb
 would be saved in a static executable?  My guess is that there might be
 lower-hanging fruit.

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