x86_64: dll-split: out of memory (requested 1099512676352 bytes)

Attempting to build GHC on an x86_64 Linux machine fails for me:

$ make
===--- building phase 0
make --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `phase_0_builds'.
===--- building phase 1
make --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=1 phase_1_builds
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `phase_1_builds'.
===--- building final phase
make --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=final all
inplace/bin/dll-split compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v-dyn.haskell "DynFlags" "Annotations ApiAnnotation Avail Bag BasicTypes Binary BooleanFormula BreakArray BufWrite Class CmdLineParser CmmType CoAxiom ConLike Coercion Config Constants CoreArity CoreFVs CoreSubst CoreSyn CoreTidy CoreUnfold CoreUtils CoreSeq CoreStats CostCentre Ctype DataCon Demand Digraph DriverPhases DynFlags Encoding ErrUtils Exception FamInstEnv FastFunctions FastMutInt FastString Fingerprint FiniteMap ForeignCall Hooks HsBinds HsDecls HsDoc HsExpr HsImpExp HsLit PlaceHolder HsPat HsSyn HsTypes HsUtils HscTypes IOEnv Id IdInfo IfaceSyn IfaceType InstEnv Kind Lexeme Lexer ListSetOps Literal Maybes MkCore MkId Module MonadUtils Name NameEnv NameSet OccName OccurAnal OptCoercion OrdList Outputable PackageConfig Packages Pair Panic PatSyn PipelineMonad Platform PlatformConstants PprCore PrelNames PrelRules Pretty PrimOp RdrName Rules Serialized SrcLoc StaticFlags StringBuffer TcEvidence TcRnTypes TcType TrieMap TyCon Type TypeRep TysPrim TysWiredIn Unify UniqFM UniqSet UniqSupply Unique Util Var VarEnv VarSet Bitmap BlockId ByteCodeAsm ByteCodeInstr ByteCodeItbls CLabel Cmm CmmCallConv CmmExpr CmmInfo CmmMachOp CmmNode CmmSwitch CmmUtils CodeGen.Platform CodeGen.Platform.ARM CodeGen.Platform.ARM64 CodeGen.Platform.NoRegs CodeGen.Platform.PPC CodeGen.Platform.PPC_Darwin CodeGen.Platform.SPARC CodeGen.Platform.X86 CodeGen.Platform.X86_64 Hoopl Hoopl.Dataflow InteractiveEvalTypes MkGraph PprCmm PprCmmDecl PprCmmExpr Reg RegClass SMRep StgCmmArgRep StgCmmClosure StgCmmEnv StgCmmLayout StgCmmMonad StgCmmProf StgCmmTicky StgCmmUtils StgSyn Stream"
dll-split: out of memory (requested 1099512676352 bytes)
make[1]: *** [compiler/stage2/dll-split.stamp] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

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Trac field	Value
Version	7.11
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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