Hi Matthew,

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 05:38:57PM -0500, Matthew Fluet wrote:
>If it is just the `world` regression tests that are failing, then it
>is almost certainly due to save/restore world being incompatible with
>ASLR; see http://mlton.org/MLtonWorld#_notes.  Perhaps Debian
>arm64-linux has gained ASLR since the last time the regression suite
>was run on this platform?  In any case, you'll notice that the `world`
>regression tests are explicitly whitelisted (i.e., these tests failing
>do not cause a failure exit status from the regression script) because
>of this issue.

ACK. As far as I can see from the kernel source, KASLR has been around
for arm64 since 2016. I'm rebuilding now with the 'world' tests
disabled to verify that's the only problem.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                [email protected]
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