Re: [GHC] #5634: compilation error (Mac OS X Lion, Xcode 4.2): LLVM cannot handle register variable ‘R1’

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#5634: compilation error (Mac OS X Lion, Xcode 4.2): LLVM cannot handle register
variable ‘R1’
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  Reporter:  guest                |          Owner:                               
      Type:  bug                  |         Status:  closed                       
  Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:  7.4.1                        
 Component:  Runtime System       |        Version:  7.3                          
Resolution:  fixed                |       Keywords:  StgCRun.c LLVM Lion Xcode-4.2
  Testcase:                       |      Blockedby:                               
Difficulty:                       |             Os:  MacOS X                      
  Blocking:                       |   Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)               
   Failure:  Building GHC failed  |  
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Changes (by simonmar):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed
  * milestone:  7.6.1 => 7.4.1


Comment:

 I pulled in David Piexotto's patches recently which should fix this.
 However, you really don't want to use llvm-gcc for now if you can help it,
 because the performance of the GC is much worse than when compiled with
 gcc. Commits:

 dba7254566b121408e7167200d0223a531b66e8b
 6247b59e5d31de58ee51273916bc44ac2118240a

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5634#comment:5>
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