Andreas Klebinger authored Jan 11, 2023 and Marge Bot committed Jan 30, 2023

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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