> Curious how far my current build of ghc-8.2.2 will go... 8.2 and later, including HEAD should be better and better. I've done some work on this (mainly passing your patches to the HEAD of that time) and also some core GHC developers (Ben Gamari IIRC) are testing on OpenBSD (latest release) now, so I think your life as GHC maintainer should be more easier.
Completely other matter is: - GHC memory allocation strategy -- big mmap where it is supported - GHC RWX memory usage, hence wxneeded - GHC/base usage of unsafe string primitives Thanks, Karel