[GHC] #4210: LLVM: Dynamic Library Support

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#4210: LLVM: Dynamic Library Support
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    Reporter:  dterei            |        Owner:  dterei       
        Type:  feature request   |       Status:  new          
    Priority:  high              |    Milestone:  7.2.1        
   Component:  Compiler (LLVM)   |      Version:  6.13         
    Keywords:                    |     Testcase:               
   Blockedby:                    |   Difficulty:               
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Blocking:               
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |      Failure:  Runtime crash
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Comment(by dterei):

 So I had a test of it on OSX. It mostly works but there are a significant
 amount of testsuite failures. On 32bit OSX there are no failure with the
 LLVM backend. On 64bit using -fPIC there are around 70 failures. I haven't
 looked into why they are failing at all yet, most the ffi tests seem to
 fail so potentially all the failures are related to that. Not sure when
 I'll have time to figure out what the failures are caused by so I'm
 tempted to enable the LLVM backend under 64bit OSX and just add a big
 warning that it has a good chance of not working... Depends on when 7.2
 release happens I guess.

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