RE: GetMBlock: misaligned block

2002-09-12 Thread Simon Marlow
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that GHC is asking for memory at a particular address (0x5000) and the kernel is returning memory elsewhere that doesn't satisfy our aligment constraints (1M aligned). We don't particularly care where we get memory from,

Re: GetMBlock: misaligned block

2002-09-11 Thread Carl R. Witty
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that GHC is asking for memory at a particular address (0x5000) and the kernel is returning memory elsewhere that doesn't satisfy our aligment constraints (1M aligned). We don't particularly care where we get memory from, but it must

RE: GetMBlock: misaligned block

2002-09-06 Thread Simon Marlow
after baking a new kernel for my Linux box I got this funny error message: basilisk /home/ralf ghci ghc-5.04: fatal error: GetMBlock: misaligned block 0x15745000 returned when allocating 1 megablock(s) at 0x5000 (There is a 4 year old entry on the mailing list reporting the same