[Haskell-cafe] Re: [haskell] ANNOUNCE: HNOP 0.1

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 16:36 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> [resending as the original seems to have been silently eaten;
>  attachements are at http://urchin.earth.li/~ian/splitting/ ]
> 
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:45:57PM -0700, mvanier wrote:
> >
> > I'm at a loss here.  Somehow, the SplitObjs option doesn't seem to be doing
> > the job.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> It looks like gcc 4.1 is floating all the
> 
>      __asm__("\n__stg_split_marker:");
> 
> results to the top of the file, so the splitter sees only a number of
> empty sections followed by one large one.

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/809

this is now fixed by ghc passing -fno-unit-at-a-time to gcc

> Amd64 doesn't seem to be afflicted.

because it was already using -fno-unit-at-a-time

Duncan