Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.arm,gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general,gmane.linux.debian.devel.release
Message-ID <CA+7wUswTqY4hxd-f+h_fziPvF3MNEw8iH1mSRZ86QL8Mk9MMEw@mail.gmail.com>
Aurélien,

Thanks for caring about 32bits arches !

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:39 PM Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> mips and mipsel are more affected by the issue as the virtual address
> space is limited to 2GB. Therefore on those architectures, this issue
> recently started to also affect core packages like ghc and rustc, and
> the usual tricks are not working anymore.
[...]

(maybe a bit naive) Another way to look at the issue is that ghc and
rustc are core packages on 32bits system. Would it make sense to start
having a separate core32 & core64 instead of a single one ?
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