[GHC] #2972: ppc ghci segfaults at startup

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#2972: ppc ghci segfaults at startup
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    Reporter:  cemeyer  |       Owner:  erikd     
        Type:  bug      |      Status:  new       
    Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  _|_       
   Component:  GHCi     |     Version:  7.5       
    Keywords:           |          Os:  Linux     
Architecture:  powerpc  |     Failure:  GHCi crash
  Difficulty:  Unknown  |    Testcase:            
   Blockedby:           |    Blocking:            
     Related:           |  
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Comment(by erikd):

 The attached patch (0001-Fix-GHCi-segfault-during-startup-on-
 PowerPC-2972.patch) has been tested on linux-powerpc, linux-i386 and
 linux-x86_64. I ran ran validate on powerpc and x86_64.

 I emailed the haskell at h.o and haskell-cafe at h.o mailing lists asking for
 people interested in powerpc on other OSes (eg *BSD and darwin) to help
 test and have not received a response. I suspect that this patch may break
 darwin-powerpc, but have no way of testing it.

 My feeling is that the patch should be applied and if it breaks darwin-
 powerpc then we (I volunteer to help) fix it. Does that sound sane?

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