[GHC] #12388: Don't barf on failures in the RTS linker

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#12388: Don't barf on failures in the RTS linker
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        Reporter:  dobenour          |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.2.1
       Component:  Runtime System    |              Version:  8.0.1
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Comment (by simonmar):

 Something that might help here is gcc's cleanup attribute:
 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html which
 gives you some of the benefits of RAII in plain C.

 Going to C++ even for a small bit of the codebase would be a big step
 because we would have to use g++ as the linker and we get dependencies on
 C++ standard libs etc.

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