Fwd: Unable to compile ghc-8.2.2 with ghc-8.4.3

[Brandon Allbery]

I don't think ghc ever used gcc's version of this; it used the Evil Mangler
to do it.

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:59 PM Sven Panne <svenpanne at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am Fr., 31. Aug. 2018 um 18:52 Uhr schrieb Ben Franksen <
> ben.franksen at online.de>:
>
>> Am 31.08.2018 um 11:57 schrieb Sven Panne:
>> > Am Fr., 31. Aug. 2018 um 11:11 Uhr schrieb Sam Halliday <
>> > sam.halliday at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> >> [...] It would make a lot of sense for the
>> >> "unregistered" sources to be made available as an optional download
>>
>> Note that the term is "unregisterized" which refers to putting certain
>> global variables into registers; you can't do that in C code.
>>
>
> That's only correct for standard C, for GCC there is
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Global-Register-Variables.html. IIRC
> this is exactly how old unregistered builds worked. I am not even sure if
> the unregistered builds ever worked *without* GCC, perhaps there was some
> CPP magic, but I can't remember....
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