[commit: ghc] ghc-8.0: Linker: Use contiguous mmapping on ARM (266bc33)

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Repository : ssh://git@git.haskell.org/ghc

On branch  : ghc-8.0
Link       : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/266bc33cc6ac7c328ae3847e23df8681d8172d0a/ghc

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commit 266bc33cc6ac7c328ae3847e23df8681d8172d0a
Author: Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>
Date:   Sun Jan 3 13:21:39 2016 +0100

    Linker: Use contiguous mmapping on ARM
    
    ARM has a 24-bit relative jump offset just like PowerPC. Ensure that
    symbols don't get too far from their symbol extras.
    
    See #11340.
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1728
    
    (cherry picked from commit 07d127ad23c7e6056471d218adcc8ec5119fac6c)


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266bc33cc6ac7c328ae3847e23df8681d8172d0a
 rts/Linker.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rts/Linker.c b/rts/Linker.c
index c5781eeff..e6f63cb 100644
--- a/rts/Linker.c
+++ b/rts/Linker.c
@@ -79,10 +79,18 @@
 #endif
 
 
-/* PowerPC has relative branch instructions with only 24 bit displacements
- * and therefore needs jump islands contiguous with each object code module.
+/* PowerPC and ARM have relative branch instructions with only 24 bit
+ * displacements and therefore need jump islands contiguous with each object
+ * code module.
  */
-#if (USE_MMAP && defined(powerpc_HOST_ARCH) && defined(linux_HOST_OS))
+#if defined(powerpc_HOST_ARCH)
+#define SHORT_REL_BRANCH 1
+#endif
+#if defined(arm_HOST_ARCH)
+#define SHORT_REL_BRANCH 1
+#endif
+
+#if (USE_MMAP && defined(SHORT_REL_BRANCH) && defined(linux_HOST_OS))
 #define USE_CONTIGUOUS_MMAP 1
 #else
 #define USE_CONTIGUOUS_MMAP 0