#4387: Huge executables with GHC 7
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Reporter: daniel.is.fischer | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.1
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.1
Keywords: executable size | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty:
Os: Linux | Blocking:
Architecture: x86 | Failure: Other
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Comment(by rl):
Replying to [comment:34 simonmar]:
> Right, and we're already doing that for the foreign export initailisers.
We could use this method for the profiling initialisers too, but it would
mean compiling a C stub file with every Haskell module. That may be the
only way though.
I'm probably being a bit dense but why do we need a separate C file? Can't
we just have GHC generate the initialisers and put them in the same object
file as the rest of the module?
> I think this is a good plan. In the long term we should fix the
initialisers, but this gives us a short term workaround while we think
about the best way to handle initialisers.
Great! I think we only use `SpecConstrAnnotation`, defined in
!SpecConstr.lhs, at the moment. It would be great if we could add ghc-
annotations before the next release candidate.
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