problem with GLOBALSZ=86016

[Juan Raymundo Iglesias]

Hi,


The computer I am using is a Redhat 6.2 with linux 2.2.16:
%uname -a
Linux calpulalpan 2.2.16-3 #1 Mon Jun 19 19:11:44 EDT 2000 i686 unknown


The computer has 512MB of RAM memory:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:        517088     112304     404784      67772       7024
59212
-/+ buffers/cache:      46068     471020
Swap:            0          0          0


I am using gprolog 1.2.3:
%gprolog
GNU Prolog 1.2.3
By Daniel Diaz
Copyright (C) 1999,2000 Daniel Diaz


I am using gprolog with a process needing lots of
memory, so I tried with the following stack environment variables:
export GLOBALSZ=86016
export LOCALSZ=32768
export TRAILSZ=8192


The problem is that when I start gprolog, the following message occurs:
%gprolog
Fatal Error: Memory allocation fault (calloc) in hash.c:116


It seems that this is not a shortage memory problem. I wrote the
following simple program that
allocates 256MB of memory without having any error:
main()
{
  char *m = calloc(1024*1024*256, 1);
  if (m == NULL) printf("memory error");
}


I modified Calloc_Check in misc.c to see if at some point gprolog was
allocating lots of memory:
char *
Calloc_Check(unsigned nb, unsigned size, char *src_file, int src_line)
{
  char *m = calloc(nb, size);

  if (m == NULL)
    {
    printf("while allocating %u bytes ", size);
    Fatal_Error(ERR_ALLOC_FAULT, "calloc", src_file, src_line);
    }
  return m;
}


Surprisingly to me, the call to Calloc_Check that produced the crash was
very small,
just 4 bytes:
%gprolog

Fatal Error: Memory allocation fault (calloc) in hash.c:116
while allocating 4 bytes


Please let me know there is some way I can help to fix this problem.

Cheers ...