[PPL-devel] GMP memory allocation problem in SWI-Prolog 5.6.38 and following versions

[Roberto Bagnara]

Pedro Baltazar Vasconcelos wrote:
 > Hello,

Hello Pedro!  (Long time, no see :-)

 > I have experienced the same issue a couple of years ago with Andy
 > King's experimental PPL bindings for the Glasgow Haskell compiler
 > (GHC).
 > The problem was (and still is, I think) the reason why there is no
 > "official" Haskell/GHC binding in the PPL distribution.
 > I also contacted Simon Marlow on the GHC development side and he
 > acknowledged the problem but didnt't have a solution for it in the
 > near horizon (in the longer run, they might stop using GMP inside
 > the Haskell runtime system).

Yes, I have read http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/311
and http://www.nabble.com/FFI-Bindings-to-Libraries-using-GMP-t4420123.html

 > Since I desperately needed to use the PPL with my Haskell programs I
 > did a quick and dirty hack that worked (under Linux at least):
 > 1) create a duplicate libmygmp with renamed symbols (with a prefix);
 > 2) create a special libmyppl that uses libmygmp instead of libgmp;
 > 3) link my Haskell code with libmyppl.
 >
 > I used objcopy on the library binaries rather than modify the
 > sources. But for some reason I could only get this to work with the
 > static libraries. Anyway, I can pass you a short script that does
 > the library renaming if you are interested.

Yes, please!  Why not posting it here?
Ciao,

     Roberto

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