-;;; Though note that POSIX specifies (as far as I can tell)
-;;;
-;;; sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);
-;;;
-;;; as a portable way of retrieving this information; a call to this
-;;; could be made in grovel-headers (which, strictly speaking, would
-;;; no longer solely be grovelling headers), though the question of
-;;; how to make this information appear in GENESIS, which is built and
-;;; run from host-1 files (which are made before grovel-headers runs)
-;;; would remain. -- CSR, 2002-09-01
-(setf *backend-page-size* 4096)
+;;; Actually any information that we can retrieve C-side would be
+;;; useless in SBCL, since it's possible for otherwise binary
+;;; compatible systems to return different values for getpagesize().
+;;; -- JES, 2007-01-06
+(eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)
+ (setf *backend-page-bytes* 4096))