On 16-Feb-2000, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The easiest way is to declare mmap as a foreign function using foreign
> import, then build a little wrapper around it. Unfortunately you won't be
> able to turn the resulting memory into an array (even a ByteArray), since
> these are assumed to live in GHC's heap
I'm curious: why do you make that assumption?
If I write code that defines some big array whose contents are known
at compile time, it would be nice if ghc would allocate that array
at compile time, in read-only memory, rather than allocating it on
the heap at run-time.
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