We shouldn't need it, as we don't call cygwin's gcc, and it was causing
problems with the nightly builders passing it to GHC.

Perhaps in the past '.align 2' meant align to 4 bytes, but nowadays it
means align to 2 bytes.  The compacting collector requires info tables
to be aligned to 4 bytes, because it stores tag bits in the low 2
bits.

This only affects -fvia-C - the native code generator was already
emitting the correct alignment.  The incorrect alignment might well
have been adversely affecting performance with -fvia-C on Windows.

We were generating a label ".LnLC7", which the splitter was confusing
with a literal constant (LC). The end result was the assembler tripping
up on ".Ln.text".

I'm not sure why this was here, but it makes ghci.o get built twice on
Windows, which can cause the build to fail if it tries to link it
in the middle.

* ghc-asm: Finally did away with $* in a way that works with Perl 5.6~5.10+, by appending /m to all regexes.

The problem of the splitter was that it re-emitted section directives
for every dynamic label found. The following was torn apart

.symbol_stubs
.indirect <symbol>
L_<symbol>$stub: 
	jmp *...
L_<symbol>$stub_binder:
	..somebinding code..

into

.symbol_stubs
.indirect_symbol <symbol>
L_<symbol>$stub: 
	jmp *...
.symbol_stubs <--- NEW
L_<symbol>$stub_binder:
	..somebinding code..

This is incorrect as the Mac OS assembler enforces that every new code
section that goes into .symbol_stubs is associated with the linker
directive .indirect_symbol. This sanity check is obviously violated
when we reemit .symbol_stub in the splitter. The solution is to ignore
everything that ends with $stub_binder as new label, and chuck it into
a single label for $stub.

Also the splitter has to recognize .section __DATA... for the lazy_ptr
indirection symbol. Adds a reminder to PositionIndependentCode.hs to
take care of the splitter when the code generation is changed.

This should not affect -fvia-c as the code generated by the C compiler
is entirely different.

  Perl 4's special variable $* controls multi-line matching; it's been
  deprecated from Perl 5's inception, and is finally removed in Perl
  versions 5.9 (soon to be 5.10).

  Since GHC depends on Perl 5.6+ anyway, this patch introduces an
  equivalent effect to $* without using that special variable, by
  hooking into Perl's regex parsing process to add the /m flag.

Bindists should now work again, when doing "make install" at least.
"make in-place" is probably still broken.

Key changes:
* Always build as if BIN_DIST is 1. BIN_DIST is thus removed.
* Libraries are configured with prefix set to $$topdir rather than $(prefix)

Save/restore two more registers in StgCRun().  The extra 
registers are used by ffi009.hs, when compiling with gcc 4.1.2.

Gcc 4 is doing more clever optimizations than earlier gccs. 
These changes let ghc compile and run on ia64 with gcc 4.0.3.

Register stack frames are enlarged so that all functions use the 
same size stack frame.
The code to mangle tail calls has been cleaned up and made more 
general.
Additional floating-point and special-purpose registers used by 
GCC are saved upon entering the STG runtime.
More general handling of NOP instructions.
Handling of functions with multiple epilogues or no epilogue.

Info tables, like everything else in the text section, MUST NOT contain
pointers. A pointer is, by definition, position dependent and is therefore
fundamentally incompatible with generating position independent code.

Therefore, we have to store an offset from the info label to the string
instead of the pointer, just as we already did for other things referred
to by the info table (SRTs, large bitmaps, etc.)

From heatsink, in trac #1150.

This has the undesitrable effect that stg_gc_gen_hp in the RTS was
caught as an HPC symbol and put in the data segment.

Patch by Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>
This patch has been tested with GHC-6.4.2 where it fixes a
huge number of testsuite failures (down from 406 to 17)

Basic -fvia-C code generation is there, not much testing.

This large checkin is the new ghc version of Haskell
Program Coverage, an expression-level coverage tool for Haskell.

Parts:

 - Hpc.[ch] - small runtime support for Hpc; reading/writing *.tix files.
 - Coverage.lhs - Annotates the HsSyn with coverage tickboxes.
  - New Note's in Core,
      - TickBox      -- ticked on entry to sub-expression
      - BinaryTickBox  -- ticked on exit to sub-expression, depending
	       	     -- on the boolean result.

  - New Stg level TickBox (no BinaryTickBoxes, though) 

You can run the coverage tool with -fhpc at compile time. 
Main must be compiled with -fhpc.