Re: gcc 4 stack overflow in head

[Marius Vollmer]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> The head built with debian i386 gcc 4 bombs with a stack overflow on
> startup.  Under gdb it looks like it really has used up its 80kbytes,
> but I can't tell where or why.  The same built with gcc 3.3 is ok, so
> something evil has happened.

I have seen this intermittently as well (for example, compiling
without optimization would give a stack overflow when launching into
the repl, but compiling with optimization would not).  Maybe the
default stack limit is dangerously close to what we need to survive...

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