[GHC] #8199: Get rid of HEAP_ALLOCED

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#8199: Get rid of HEAP_ALLOCED
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              Reporter:  ezyang      |            Owner:  ezyang
                  Type:  feature     |           Status:  new
  request                            |        Milestone:  7.10.1
              Priority:  normal      |          Version:  7.7
             Component:  Compiler    |         Keywords:
            Resolution:              |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
      Operating System:              |       Difficulty:  Project (more
  Unknown/Multiple                   |  than a week)
       Type of failure:              |       Blocked By:  5435
  None/Unknown                       |  Related Tickets:
             Test Case:              |
              Blocking:              |
Differential Revisions:  D207        |
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Comment (by simonmar):

 @ajp the problem is that this data is statically linked, not mmapped.  If
 we move it somewhere else, all the references within it will be wrong.
 That's what method 2 was doing: relocating all the static closures
 elsewhere and fixing up all the pointers.

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