https://lwn.net/Articles/294642/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Tangled up in threads". en-us Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:38:10 +0000 Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:38:10 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/294974/ https://lwn.net/Articles/294974/ rwmj <p>We used <code>MAP_32BIT</code> to work around a troublesome <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445545#c9">bug in the OCaml compiler</a>. It'll get fixed properly in the next release of the compiler, but isolating and backporting just the compiler fix would have been seriously complicated. Happily the workaround on using <code>MAP_32BIT</code> is a simple, effective change. </p> <p> And yeah we really depend on the kernel not ignoring this flag ... </p> <p>Rich.</p> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:26:40 +0000