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authorXavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>2007-10-30 12:37:16 +0000
committerXavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>2007-10-30 12:37:16 +0000
commit9ccb91166667859d45fda6ab7df534bbfd10ef66 (patch)
tree4c2db48804a7468bd606d02b05ca0a5b3b166270 /byterun/unix.c
parentbbc5f6891a7aec8d495d5d3351bbf514bb10196c (diff)
Can select which assembler to use at configuration time (PR#4171)
git-svn-id: http://caml.inria.fr/svn/ocaml/trunk@8462 f963ae5c-01c2-4b8c-9fe0-0dff7051ff02
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/byterun/unix.c b/byterun/unix.c
index 7d3f85788..3b8bb22e6 100644
--- a/byterun/unix.c
+++ b/byterun/unix.c
@@ -337,12 +337,10 @@ char * caml_dlerror(void)
/* The code below supports the use of mmap() rather than malloc()
for allocating the chunks composing the major heap.
- This code is needed for the IA64 under Linux, where the native
+ This code is needed on 64-bit Linux platforms, where the native
malloc() implementation can return pointers several *exabytes* apart,
(some coming from mmap(), other from sbrk()); this makes the
- page table *way* too large.
- No other tested platform requires this hack so far. However, it could
- be useful for other 64-bit platforms in the future. */
+ page table *way* too large. */
#include <sys/mman.h>