#4828: ghci fails to load fat binary archives on OS X
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    Reporter:  gwright           |        Owner:  igloo     
        Type:  bug               |       Status:  patch     
    Priority:  normal            |    Milestone:  7.2.1     
   Component:  Runtime System    |      Version:  7.0.1     
    Keywords:                    |     Testcase:            
   Blockedby:                    |   Difficulty:            
          Os:  MacOS X           |     Blocking:            
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |      Failure:  GHCi crash
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Comment(by gwright):

 What is wrong is not a C subtlety, it's how the linker handles "private
 external" symbols (symbols with `N_PEXT` set in the type field).  The OS X
 documentation is terse on this point, but perhaps private externals don't
 need to be inserted into the symbol table.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4828#comment:15>
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