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Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures
From: |
Camm Maguire |
Subject: |
Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures |
Date: |
29 Nov 2004 20:26:52 -0500 |
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Greetings!
"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Camm.
>
> You wrote to Paul:
>
> | Interesting -- I had thought we'd hit gcl memory limits far before
> | gcc.
>
> after he wrote:
>
> | > I'm seeing something odd in gcl's compiler. It's producing C
> | > files that are causing the C compiler to use very large amounts
> | > of memory (> 800 MB in some cases), causing my machine to thrash.
> | > I'll send you an example of such a C file in the next message
> | > (it's 1.7 MB, so I will gzip it first; I don't have the associated
> | > lisp.)
> | >
> | > The file contains a function with a huge tree of nested conditional
> | > expressions. This must be what is causing the compiler to take
> | > so long.
>
> On a related note, On Windows I have random tester failures for (10,000 8)
> because the GNU assembler (from memory - this was a few months ago) crashes
> on the large files generated.
>
Hmm -- how much physical mem, and what fraction swap? Can you gather
if we are being wasteful in the size of our C output, or is this
simply a gcc/gas issue?
Take care,
> Cheers
>
> Mike Thomas.
>
>
>
>
>
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- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, (continued)
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Paul F. Dietz, 2004/11/27
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Camm Maguire, 2004/11/27
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Paul F. Dietz, 2004/11/27
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Camm Maguire, 2004/11/28
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Paul F. Dietz, 2004/11/28
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Camm Maguire, 2004/11/28
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Paul F. Dietz, 2004/11/28
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Camm Maguire, 2004/11/29
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- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Camm Maguire, 2004/11/29
- RE: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Mike Thomas, 2004/11/29
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures,
Camm Maguire <=
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Paul F. Dietz, 2004/11/29
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Camm Maguire, 2004/11/29
- Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Paul F. Dietz, 2004/11/30
Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures, Camm Maguire, 2004/11/27