On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:00:59PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
Is this a change from 6.8.3? NetBSD currently provides 6.8.3 as an optional package for NetBSD/i386 4.0, with ghci included and without any mmap patches as far as I know. It was also working for me on NetBSD/amd64 (which is the platform that would actually need MAP_32BIT?)
Yes, the code changed in the HEAD, and currently uses mremap(), which only exists on Linux. We need similar hacks that were done in 6.8.3 to get the BSDs to work, that is to allocate memory from some predefined address in the lower 2Gb of the address space.
BTW: are there any big plans[tm] to replace all this OS specific hacks by something like dlopen(3) and friends for GHC 6.12? I really don't want to hack on Linker.c just to be see that hacking obsoleted in a year ;-) Ciao, Kili -- This email is ROT26 encrypted, by reading it you are in violation of the DMCA, and should turn yourself in to the authorities immediately. -- Chris Berry