[ ghc-Bugs-1186911 ] Prologue junk?

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Bugs item #1186911, was opened at 2005-04-20 20:25
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Category: Compiler
Group: 6.4
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Simon Marlow (simonmar)
Summary: Prologue junk?

Initial Comment:
Compiling Omega 1.0 (from Tim Sheard's home page) 
under GHC 6.4 for Windows XP by Christopher Dutchyn 
(cdutchyn at cs.ubc.ca)

C:\spl\Omega1.0>ghc Main.hs -prof -auto-all --make -
fglasgow-exts -package lang -fallow-undecidable-
instances

... successful modules elided ...

Compiling LangEval         ( ./LangEval.hs, ./LangEval.o )

./LangEval.hs:22:0:
    Warning: Module `IOExts' is deprecated:
                 This library will go away soon; see 
Data.Array.IO, Data.IORef, and System.IO

./LangEval.hs:278:8:
    Warning: Pattern match(es) are overlapped
             In the definition of `mf': mf p v = ...

Prologue junk?: .globl _LangEval_vals_entry
_LangEval_vals_entry:
        movl    $4588, %eax
        call    __alloca
/APP


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>Comment By: Simon Peyton Jones (simonpj)
Date: 2005-08-11 15:20

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No response, so closing the bug.

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Comment By: Simon Marlow (simonmar)
Date: 2005-06-03 10:23

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I believe I've fixed this, though I haven't tested the fix.
 Please could you try again with a snapshot of ghc 6.4.1
generated any time after today?

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