Re: Fixing "OS allocated a heap in high memory"

Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:31:57 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.nhc.bugs
Organization	Dept of Computer Science, University of York
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

[email protected] (Donald Bruce Stewart) writes:

> Switching the heap allocation to use mmap with a hint to allocate
> somewhere lower fixes it at least on x86/openbsd.

Thanks for the fix(es).  Eventually the high-memory problem will be
fixed by not using the top bit for GC, but until then, your approach
will be a useful workaround.  I'll check it into CVS.

Regards,
    Malcolm