Bug#973623:

2020-11-15 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
I concocted a test case that was independent from ghc, confirmed it still reproduced with current binutils git and filed an upstream bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26902. I even made a little patch that fixes the problem but I don't know if it's in any way correct.

Bug#973623: stack overflows with ghc on ppc64el

2020-11-03 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
In that case, someone should upload something like this: (master *)mwhudson@anduril:~/src/pkg/DHG_packages/p/ghc$ git diff diff --git a/p/ghc/debian/rules b/p/ghc/debian/rules index a5fd42860b..af3f8851d3 100755 --- a/p/ghc/debian/rules +++ b/p/ghc/debian/rules @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ endif # once

Bug#973623: stack overflows with ghc on ppc64el

2020-11-02 Thread Matthias Klose
the patch mentioned above is already part of bintuils 2.35.1-2.

Bug#973623:

2020-11-02 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
I think this is a gold bug, and even better I think it is a gold bug that was fixed already, in this commit from a few weeks back: commit fa40fbe484954c560ab1c0ff4bc1b2eeb1511344 Author: Alan Modra Date: Fri Oct 9 16:56:33 2020 +1030 [GOLD] Power10 segv due to wild r2 Calling

Bug#973623: stack overflows with ghc on ppc64el

2020-11-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: ghc Version: 8.8.4-1 Severity: serious User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu hirsute Dear maintainers, We have started doing mass-rebuilds of the haskell stack in Ubuntu for ghc 8.8.4-1 and have found a pattern of failures on ppc64el where in some cases the build