I guess I have some spelunking to do tomorrow It looks like apples libgcc may be some sort of clang thingy.
On Saturday, April 23, 2016, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Carter Schonwald < > carter.schonw...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','carter.schonw...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> It *seemed* to work fine even with that lib no longer at that path, but >> famous last words. It does seem that it doesn't do anything > > > It's only used when it needs to do something for which the CPU lacks > support so a call to an emulation is used instead of trying to generate > native code for it. Maybe you got lucky and ghc doesn't actually need it in > its C bits. Or maybe it'll explode only when there's a full moon in Scorpio > and Mars is ascendant. :/ (Well, when some rarely used operation happens to > need something that x86_64 needs help with. I don't think there are many of > those --- which means it's going to be an even rarer explosion.) > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > allber...@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','allber...@gmail.com');> > ballb...@sinenomine.net > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ballb...@sinenomine.net');> > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net >
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