With dynamic linking enabled, the first binary compiled by the stage1 compiler (dll-split) crashes with an illegal instruction exception.

(gdb) bt
#0  0x0f3f2e24 in cr_str () from /home/erikd/Git/ghc-upstream/rts/dist/build/libHSrts-ghc7.7.20130630.so
#1  0x0f3de490 in stg_catchzh () from /home/erikd/Git/ghc-upstream/rts/dist/build/libHSrts-ghc7.7.20130630.so
#2  0x0f3cc01c in scheduleWaitThread () from /home/erikd/Git/ghc-upstream/rts/dist/build/libHSrts-ghc7.7.20130630.so
#3  0x0f3c63dc in rts_evalLazyIO () from /home/erikd/Git/ghc-upstream/rts/dist/build/libHSrts-ghc7.7.20130630.so
#4  0x0f3c8300 in hs_main () from /home/erikd/Git/ghc-upstream/rts/dist/build/libHSrts-ghc7.7.20130630.so
#5  0x10006ae4 in main ()

Disassmbling the function gives:

Dump of assembler code for function cr_str:
   0x0f3f2dec:  rlwimi  r1,r2,10,0,16
   0x0f3f2df0:  xoris   r2,r27,27237
   0x0f3f2df4:  ori     r20,r27,8293
   0x0f3f2df8:  xoris   r20,r19,25970
   0x0f3f2dfc:  oris    r4,r11,8448
   0x0f3f2e00:  .long 0xfffeae2c
   0x0f3f2e04:  .long 0xfffeae2c
   0x0f3f2e08:  .long 0xfffeae2c
   0x0f3f2e0c:  .long 0xfffeae2c
   0x0f3f2e10:  .long 0xfffeae2c
   0x0f3f2e14:  .long 0xfffeae2c
   0x0f3f2e18:  .long 0xfffeae2c
   0x0f3f2e1c:  .long 0xfffeae2c
   0x0f3f2e20:  .long 0xfffeae2c
=> 0x0f3f2e24:  .long 0xfffeae20
   0x0f3f2e28:  .long 0xfffeae20
   0x0f3f2e2c:  .long 0xfffeae20
   0x0f3f2e30:  .long 0xfffeae20

However function stg_catchzh() in rts/Exception.cmm does not call cr_str().

If I disable dynamic lbraries by adding powerpc-unknow-linux to NoSharedLibsPlatformList in mk/config.mk.in then the compile builds.