"Simon Marlow" writes:

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Ok, I've done the following:

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- disabled the maximum heap

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- RTS options are taken from the GHCRTS environment variable in addition to the command line (the command line has precedence).

(I haven't followed this debate closely, so I may be missing out on something, but:)

Perhaps it could be possible to embed a default in the executable as well, through a command line option to the compiler/linker? You know, for the occasional program that actually requires more heap than one is comfortable declaring in GHCRTS, but one is too lazy to write a shell wrapper for?

You can do this already, though not with a compiler option. It would be possible to do it with a compiler option, but it would be tricky to implement - basically the compiler would have to generate a small C file, compile it, and link it into the excecutable, and somehow avoid conflicting with any other hooks that the programmer had already defined. So, I'm enclined not to do this on the grounds that the payoff to effort ratio is small. But, as usual, if there's strong demand then we'll probably do it anyway. Cheers, Simon