Re: [PATCH] Fix -unawareness of large-addresses on mingw (#8520)

2014-06-08 Thread kyra
There is a problem here. While setting LARGEADDRESSAWARE apparently works for GHC *itself*, we can't be sure it works for any GHC-generated executable because it can potentially be linked with some *foreign* code which is not LARGEADDRESSAWARE compatible (see

Re: [PATCH] Fix -unawareness of large-addresses on mingw (#8520)

2014-06-04 Thread Simon Marlow
I don't know what this does, and there doesn't seem to be any info in #8520 either. Could you add the patch to the ticket, and help us out by saying why this fixes the problem (and if possible, explain why it won't break anything else)? On 03/06/2014 07:06, transfuturist wrote: ---