[GHC] #8287: exploring calling convention changes and related engineering for 7.10

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#8287: exploring calling convention changes and related engineering for 7.10
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        Reporter:  carter            |                Owner:
            Type:  task              |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  ⊥
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  7.6.3
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:
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 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:  8299              |             Blocking:
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Changes (by rwbarton):

 * milestone:   => ⊥


Comment:

 My very old patches are also here:
 https://github.com/rwbarton/ghc/tree/rwbarton-x32

 I'm putting this on hold indefinitely though because recent Debian kernels
 no longer support x32 out of the box (you need a kernel command-line
 parameter to enable x32 support).

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