-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/24/10 20:59 , John D. Ramsdell wrote:
Due to a security concern, GHC 7.0.1 disables all runtime flags unless a new flag is provided during linking. Since limiting memory usage is so important, many developers will modify their cabal files to add the linker flag or prepare for complaints from users that the developer's program caused their machine to freeze and lose their work.
We went over this some time back; the GHC runtime is wrong here, it should only disable flags when running with geteuid() == 0. Also, the current mechanism for specifying runtime flags at compile time is horridly ugly and this really needs to be fixed before any such runtime limitation is viable. I hope that will be fixed in a later point release. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkz6i6gACgkQIn7hlCsL25VajgCeKqReTXt0JlQ90iTPtvU6VRXy 1PkAoJC83Glcy3jurrxH7eoiNGFZdazJ =Zi+B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----