[GHC] #15955: Cannot get debugging symbols for compiled c-sources

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#15955: Cannot get debugging symbols for compiled c-sources
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        Reporter:  nh2               |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.8.1
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.2.2
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Comment (by nh2):

 Thanks to bgamari and slyfox on IRC, I found that all that matters is that
 the symbols are in the generated `.s` assembly file. When that is the
 case, it isn't necessary to pass `-g` to `as`.

 And it turned out the issue is somewhere completely different.

 https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/81017f44

 Looks like Cabal strips the executable at install time; if I had run the
 executable in `dist/`, it wouldn't have, and indeed that one has my
 symbols.

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