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| author | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2018-11-26 17:21:12 -0500 |
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| committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2019-03-05 22:22:40 -0500 |
| commit | 37f257afcd6a52cf4d76c60d766b1aeb520b9f05 (patch) | |
| tree | ac800e46fbf94c16ce39170f4a720637b07dde06 /docs/users_guide/packages.rst | |
| parent | 646b6dfbe125aa756a935e840979ba11b4a882c0 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-37f257afcd6a52cf4d76c60d766b1aeb520b9f05.tar.gz | |
Rip out object splitting
The splitter is an evil Perl script that processes assembler code.
Its job can be done better by the linker's --gc-sections flag. GHC
passes this flag to the linker whenever -split-sections is passed on
the command line.
This is based on @DemiMarie's D2768.
Fixes Trac #11315
Fixes Trac #9832
Fixes Trac #8964
Fixes Trac #8685
Fixes Trac #8629
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/packages.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/packages.rst b/docs/users_guide/packages.rst index 632162f6c8..9383b8ad68 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/packages.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/packages.rst @@ -1023,9 +1023,9 @@ extra indirection). ``HSfoo.o`` file that has been pre-linked. Loading the ``.o`` file is slightly quicker, but at the expense of having another copy of the compiled package. The rule of thumb is that if the modules of the - package were compiled with :ghc-flag:`-split-objs` then building the + package were compiled with :ghc-flag:`-split-sections` then building the ``HSfoo.o`` is worthwhile because it saves time when loading the - package into GHCi. Without :ghc-flag:`-split-objs`, there is not much + package into GHCi. Without :ghc-flag:`-split-sections`, there is not much difference in load time between the ``.o`` and ``.a`` libraries, so it is better to save the disk space and only keep the ``.a`` around. In a GHC distribution we provide ``.o`` files for most packages |