[GHC] #15934: Building ghc with profiling libraries fails on windows.

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#15934: Building ghc with profiling libraries fails on windows.
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        Reporter:  AndreasK      |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug           |               Status:  new
        Priority:  highest       |            Milestone:  8.6.3
       Component:  Compiler      |              Version:  8.6.2
      Resolution:                |             Keywords:
Operating System:  Windows       |         Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown  |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                |             Blocking:
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Comment (by bgamari):

 Andreas reports that, as suggested on StackOverflow, passing `-mbig-obj`
 to the assembler helps. However, things then fail at linking. I believe
 this will be fixed by passing `--oformat pe-bigobj-x86-64` to the linker,
 although this hasn't been confirmed yet.

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