[GHC] #14018: Highlight differences of Frontend Plugin vs GHC API

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#14018: Highlight differences of Frontend Plugin vs GHC API
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        Reporter:  literon           |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.2.1-rc2
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Comment (by simonpj):

 > For the record, I wrote up some warts of calling GHC API multiple times

 Thank you.  Would you consider adding it to GHC's user-contributed
 documentation, here [https://wiki.haskell.org/GHC/As_a_library]?

 Better still, can we clean up those warts somehow?  Eg shoudl the linker
 state be as global as it is?

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