Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures

[Camm Maguire]

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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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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