Gregory Wright wrote:
I have put a binary distribution of ghc-6.6.1 for FreeBSD/amd64 at
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6.1/ghc-6.6.1-x86_64-unknown-freebsd.tar.b...
yay! Ian will supply a link from the download page in due course, I'm sure.
No documentation or ghci. The former might be easily remedied although using FreeBSD's docbook chain, as suggested in the wiki, fails when asked to generate printable docs. The latter seems to be a bigger project since my naive interpretation of the problem is that we need data relocations across a 2GB boundary.
The x86-64 (or amd64 if you like) Linux port doesn't do relocation of data references outside 2Gb. It is the subject of this bug: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/781 the underlying problem is that the relocatable reference is only 32 bits, because we're working in the small memory model, but the address of the symbol might be outside the current 2Gb slice, because it's in a shared library somewhere. The system linker solves this by relocating the data itself from the shared library into the main program's 2Gb slice (I think), but we can't do this in GHCi. Fortunately most code doesn't reference static data from shared libraries, so we get away with it most of the time. Cheers, Simon