[GHC] #885: GHC doesn't work with Data Execution Prevention on Windows

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#885: GHC doesn't work with Data Execution Prevention on Windows
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  Reporter:  guest     |          Owner:         
      Type:  bug       |         Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:  6.6.1  
 Component:  Compiler  |        Version:  6.4.2  
  Severity:  major     |     Resolution:         
  Keywords:            |             Os:  Windows
Difficulty:  Unknown   |   Architecture:  x86    
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Comment (by simonmar):

 Thanks for all the investigation...

 Changing the linker to call VirtualAlloc() is certainly an improvement -
 but please leave a ToDo comment in both the linker and allocateExec to
 remind us to fix it properly later.

 I suspect that allocating one page per allocateExec() would bite us.  Some
 applications create a ''lot'' of adjustor thunks, eg. I have a feeling
 that Pugs is one (or perhaps it just does a lot of callbacks).

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/885>
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