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Commit c6264a2d authored by Ben Gamari's avatar Ben Gamari Committed by Marge Bot
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codeGen: Produce local symbols for module-internal functions

It turns out that some important native debugging/profiling tools (e.g.
perf) rely only on symbol tables for function name resolution (as
opposed to using DWARF DIEs). However, previously GHC would emit
temporary symbols (e.g. `.La42b`) to identify module-internal
entities. Such symbols are dropped during linking and therefore not
visible to runtime tools (in addition to having rather un-helpful unique
names). For instance, `perf report` would often end up attributing all
cost to the libc `frame_dummy` symbol since Haskell code was no covered
by any proper symbol (see #17605).

We now rather follow the model of C compilers and emit
descriptively-named local symbols for module internal things. Since this
will increase object file size this behavior can be disabled with the
`-fno-expose-internal-symbols` flag.

With this `perf record` can finally be used against Haskell executables.
Even more, with `-g3` `perf annotate` provides inline source code.
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