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Austin Seipp authored
Previously, we did ./configure time checks to see if 'GNU ld' supported certain options. If it does, we bake those options into the link step. See Trac #5240. Unfortunately, the linker we use at runtime can change for several reasons. One is that the user specifies -pgml 'foo'. The other is if /usr/bin/ld or whatnot changes from when GHC was built. Those options mentioned earlier are specific to GNU ld, but many systems support GNU gold too. This is Trac #6063. So we need to check at runtime what linker we're using. This is actually a little bit complicated because we normally use the C compiler as our linker. Windows and OS X are also special here. Finally, this patch also unconditionally gives '--hash-size=31' and '--reduce-memory-overheads' to the system linker if it's GNU ld. These options have been supported for 8+ years from what I can see, and there are probably a lot of other reasons why GHC would not work with such an ancient binutils, all things considered. See Note [Run-time linker info] in SysTools for details. There are plenty of comments as well in the surrounding code. Signed-off-by:
Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Austin Seipp authoredPreviously, we did ./configure time checks to see if 'GNU ld' supported certain options. If it does, we bake those options into the link step. See Trac #5240. Unfortunately, the linker we use at runtime can change for several reasons. One is that the user specifies -pgml 'foo'. The other is if /usr/bin/ld or whatnot changes from when GHC was built. Those options mentioned earlier are specific to GNU ld, but many systems support GNU gold too. This is Trac #6063. So we need to check at runtime what linker we're using. This is actually a little bit complicated because we normally use the C compiler as our linker. Windows and OS X are also special here. Finally, this patch also unconditionally gives '--hash-size=31' and '--reduce-memory-overheads' to the system linker if it's GNU ld. These options have been supported for 8+ years from what I can see, and there are probably a lot of other reasons why GHC would not work with such an ancient binutils, all things considered. See Note [Run-time linker info] in SysTools for details. There are plenty of comments as well in the surrounding code. Signed-off-by:
Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
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