MERGE: Fix Windows DEP violations (bug #885)

[ghc-hetmet.git] / rts / sm / Storage.c

diff --git a/rts/sm/Storage.c b/rts/sm/Storage.c
index 6af2d19..ddae8c6 100644 (file)
--- a/rts/sm/Storage.c
+++ b/rts/sm/Storage.c
@@ -979,6 +979,11 @@ calcNeeded(void)
    in the page, and when the page is emptied (all objects on the page
    are free) we free the page again, not forgetting to make it
    non-executable.
+
+   TODO: The inability to handle objects bigger than BLOCK_SIZE_W means that
+         the linker cannot use allocateExec for loading object code files
+         on Windows. Once allocateExec can handle larger objects, the linker
+         should be modified to use allocateExec instead of VirtualAlloc.
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
 
 static bdescr *exec_block;