There is a problem here.
While setting LARGEADDRESSAWARE apparently works for GHC *itself*, we
can't be sure it works for any GHC-generated executable because it can
potentially be linked with some *foreign* code which is not
LARGEADDRESSAWARE compatible (see
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
If someone validates this on Windows it could go in. Add it to #8520
and put the ticket in the patch state?
On 04/06/2014 10:15, kyra wrote:
LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag if set in executable's header tells the OS that
the application can handle addresses larger than 2GB.
For 32-bit executables it i
LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag if set in executable's header tells the OS that
the application can handle addresses larger than 2GB.
For 32-bit executables it is disabled usually. To enable it we must tell
linker to enable it or manually edit an executable - for example,
peflags of editbin (from Micro
I don't know what this does, and there doesn't seem to be any info in
#8520 either.
Could you add the patch to the ticket, and help us out by saying why
this fixes the problem (and if possible, explain why it won't break
anything else)?
On 03/06/2014 07:06, transfuturist wrote:
---
compil
---
compiler/main/SysTools.lhs | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/compiler/main/SysTools.lhs b/compiler/main/SysTools.lhs
index dc9642d..1cf1155 100644
--- a/compiler/main/SysTools.lhs
+++ b/compiler/main/SysTools.lhs
@@ -740,6 +740,7 @@ getLinkerInfo' dflags = do
