[GHC] #1085: Redesign of the scheme for getting the datacon symbol name of a closure in the RTS

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#1085: Redesign of the scheme for getting the datacon symbol name of a closure in
the RTS
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 Reporter:  mnislaih        |          Owner:                  
     Type:  task            |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal          |      Milestone:  6.8             
Component:  Runtime System  |        Version:  6.6             
 Severity:  normal          |     Resolution:                  
 Keywords:                  |     Difficulty:  Moderate (1 day)
 Testcase:                  |   Architecture:  Unknown         
       Os:  Unknown         |  
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Comment (by mnislaih):

 I wonder if then there would be special versions of the libs compiled
 under this 'debugging' flag, as currently happens for the profiling libs.
 Would the increment in size be big enough to justify this inconvenience?
 Most probably not.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1085>
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