[GHC] #8039: RTS linker: unloadObj() does not actually unload the code

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#8039: RTS linker: unloadObj() does not actually unload the code
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    Reporter:  simonmar          |       Owner:  simonmar        
        Type:  task              |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  7.8.1           
   Component:  Runtime System    |     Version:  7.6.3           
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
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Comment(by simonmar):

 @igloo: yes, I have `DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS=NO` in my `mk/build.mk`.  I
 don't know how to do this with the system linker yet, because there
 doesn't seem to be an easy way to get hold of the start and end address of
 the image in memory - there's a fairly complex API in `rtld-audit`, but
 even that only seems to give you the start address.

 Anyway, for the application I need this for, we're using the RTS linker
 and not shared libraries.  So please don't make the RTS linker go away :-)

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