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    [project @ 2005-07-11 13:53:24 by simonmar] · 0af6ff59
    Simon Marlow authored
    GHCi staggers to its feet on x86_64.
    
    The problem is that in the small code model on x86_64, all symbol
    relocations are 32-bit, because the program is assumed to fit into
    2Gb.  However, shared libraries are linked outside the 2Gb range, and
    the linker arranges that references to shared library symbols either
    go via a jump table (for code references) or are copied into the 2Gb
    area (for data references).
    
    In GHCi's linker, We can use a jump table for the function symbols,
    but we can't copy the data symbols because they've already been
    relocated to point to the shared library.  What's more, we can't tell
    whether a symbol reference is to code or data - this information is
    only available from the shared library itself.
    
    Fortunately, at least HSbase.o doesn't have any data references to
    shared libraries (at least on the Linux distro I'm using), so I can at
    least get GHCi up and limping.
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