[GHC] #7040: linker failures with foreign global data

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#7040: linker failures with foreign global data
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    Reporter:  luite             |       Owner:                  
        Type:  bug               |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:                  
   Component:  Runtime System    |     Version:                  
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  Other           
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
     Related:                    |  
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Changes (by simonmar):

  * difficulty:  => Unknown


Comment:

 We should probably be using `mmap` to allocate the bss on Linux & OS X.
 We already have a bag of tricks to try to persuade `mmap` to give us
 memory in the low 2Gb on a 64-bit platform; see `mmapForLinker()` in
 `Linker.c`.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7040#comment:9>
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