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Commit f9b50be4 authored by Andreas Klebinger's avatar Andreas Klebinger Committed by Matthew Pickering
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ghc-the-library: Retain cafs in both static in dynamic builds.

We use keepCAFsForGHCi.c to force -fkeep-cafs behaviour by using a
__attribute__((constructor)) function.

This broke for static builds where the linker discarded the object file
since it was not reverenced from any exported code. We fix this by
asserting that the flag is enabled using a function in the same module
as the constructor. Which causes the object file to be retained by the
linker, which in turn causes the constructor the be run in static builds.

This changes nothing for dynamic builds using the ghc library. But causes
static to also retain CAFs (as we expect them to).

Fixes #22417.

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(cherry picked from commit 08ba8720)
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