Bug#756260: ghc generates lots of unaligned access syslog warnings on hppa

Sun Jul 26 18:12:48 UTC 2015

On 2015-07-26, at 12:46 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> So is this patch taken from GHC-7.10? If so, what is the commit id?

Yes.

a993712d16691829c3bf6d1ea552112abb2d4f9f

> 
> Also, note that we plan to upload GHC-7.10 to unstable real soon, so if
> the bug is fixed there, I’d probably prefer to not bother.

Understood.

Without the patch, it's somewhat random whether ghc and other haskell packages build.  This
is particularly so since we added a change to glibc to detect misaligned mutex pointers.

Dave
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