[nhc-bugs] Fixing "OS allocated a heap in high memory"

[Malcolm Wallace]

dons at cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart) writes:

> Switching the heap allocation to use mmap with a hint to allocate
> somewhere lower fixes it at least on x86/openbsd.

Thanks for the fix(es).  Eventually the high-memory problem will be
fixed by not using the top bit for GC, but until then, your approach
will be a useful workaround.  I'll check it into CVS.

Regards,
    Malcolm