From 5b33f5fd5db55dfd9efe4032fa4e2404f5fe18f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: simonm <unknown>
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 14:15:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [project @ 1998-05-15 14:15:29 by simonm] Fix splitting on
 i386-unknwon-linux: string constants were being duplicated in each object,
 leading to large increases in binary sizes.

---
 ghc/driver/ghc-split.lprl | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ghc/driver/ghc-split.lprl b/ghc/driver/ghc-split.lprl
index 962f67d85795..57729f209321 100644
--- a/ghc/driver/ghc-split.lprl
+++ b/ghc/driver/ghc-split.lprl
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ sub process_asm_block_iX86 {
     $str = "\.text\n\t.align 4\n" . $str;
 
     # remove/record any literal constants defined here
-    while ( ($str =~ /((LC\d+):\n\t\.ascii.*\n)/ )) {
+    while ( ($str =~ /((\.?LC\d+):\n\t\.(ascii|string).*\n)/ )) {
 	local($label) = $2;
 	local($body)  = $1;
 
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ sub process_asm_block_iX86 {
 
 	$LocalConstant{$label} = $body;
 	
-	$str =~ s/LC\d+:\n\t\.ascii.*\n//;
+	$str =~ s/\.?LC\d+:\n\t\.(ascii|string).*\n//;
     }
 
     # inject definitions for any local constants now used herein
-- 
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