Making GHC work on BSD

[Matthias Kilian]

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

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