[GHC] #3260: Linking stage2 on PPC gives "scattered reloc r_address too large"

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#3260: Linking stage2 on PPC gives "scattered reloc r_address too large"
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    Reporter:  benl      |        Owner:         
        Type:  bug       |       Status:  new    
    Priority:  normal    |    Milestone:  6.12.1 
   Component:  Compiler  |      Version:  6.11   
    Severity:  critical  |   Resolution:         
    Keywords:            |   Difficulty:  Unknown
    Testcase:            |           Os:  MacOS X
Architecture:  powerpc   |  
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Changes (by igloo):

  * difficulty:  => Unknown
  * milestone:  => 6.12.1

Comment:

 Thanks for narrowing down the patch that cause the problem, Thorkil. It
 looks like it is not directly responsible, though, but it just happens to
 make the final object too large. We hopefully just need to do something
 like pass a flag to the linker to fix this.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3260#comment:3>
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