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Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports



Aurélien,

Thanks for caring about 32bits arches !

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:39 PM Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
[...]
> mips and mipsel are more affected by the issue as the virtual address
> space is limited to 2GB. Therefore on those architectures, this issue
> recently started to also affect core packages like ghc and rustc, and
> the usual tricks are not working anymore.
[...]

(maybe a bit naive) Another way to look at the issue is that ghc and
rustc are core packages on 32bits system. Would it make sense to start
having a separate core32 & core64 instead of a single one ?


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