#885: GHC doesn't work with Data Execution Prevention on Windows
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  Reporter:  guest     |          Owner:         
      Type:  bug       |         Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:  6.6.1  
 Component:  Compiler  |        Version:  6.4.2  
  Severity:  major     |     Resolution:         
  Keywords:            |             Os:  Windows
Difficulty:  Unknown   |   Architecture:  x86    
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Changes (by simonmar):

  * milestone:  _|_ => 6.6.1

Comment:

 So basically the allocateExec API won't work on Windows with DEP, which is
 a shame because it was put there to work around a similar issue on SE
 Linux :-(

 I'd still rather see us have an OS independent interface inside the RTS to
 do this, rather than calling VirtualAlloc directly.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/885>
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