Re-run import authored by Tobias Dammers's avatar Tobias Dammers
......@@ -245,8 +245,10 @@ from. With DWARF backtraces the situation improves a bit, as you get
source locations for the backtrace, which can give valuable input.
To do this, you can compile the second stage with `-g`, like
```
make V=1 GhcStage2HcOpts="-O1 -g"
```
......@@ -255,8 +257,10 @@ make V=1GhcStage2HcOpts="-O1 -g"
(or equivalent), assuming the miscompilation is triggered by an optimisation.
Then modify the GHC wrapper `inplace/bin/ghc-stage2` to end with:
```
rm -f /tmp/${USER}-gdb
echo run -B"$topdir" ${1+"$@"} > /tmp/${USER}-gdb
......@@ -428,12 +432,15 @@ a bit:
implement `-gsplit-dwarf`, which would allow us to ship a DWARF
package separately.
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> (Also note that tools with more knowledge about the Haskell stack
> can work around this issue somewhat by using info tables to traverse
> the Haskell stack. Explaining this strategy to DWARF readers might
> also be possible, Nathan Howell has done some experiments on this if
> I remember correctly.)
>
>
- Windows situation completely unclear.
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