On Sep 1, 2016 10:03, "Eelco Dolstra" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 09/01/2016 10:09 AM, Kevin Cox wrote: > > > Sounds more like we need glibc to support the kernel we are using. GHC is > > behaving fine and probably not the only program to have this problem. > > Glibc supports our kernel just fine - it just makes available some features that > our kernel doesn't have, which is not uncommon. I mean, what should Glibc do in > this case? The fix would be to build GHC with --disable-large-address-space or > apply patch https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12495. >
It doesn't sound just fine if it is advertising features that don't exist. Is there a way to prevent glibc from saying that MADV_FREE is supported? I understand that glibc "supports" it but it probably shouldn't be advertised if the kernel underneath doesn't.
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