[M3devel] AMD64_LINUX gc/stubgen

[Tony Hosking]

Clearly a problem with GC.  I'm guessing you have something wrong  
(pointer alignment?) in the configuration.  I suspect if you run with  
@M3paranoidgc you'll trip over the problem.

On 9 Nov 2008, at 14:09, Jay wrote:

> Tony, any tips on this one? :)
>
> jay at amd64a:~/dev2/cm3/m3-ui/zeus/AMD64_LINUX$ /cm3/bin/stubgen -v1 - 
> sno RemoteView.T -T.M3IMPTAB @M3nogc
>
> always succeeds.
>
> jay at amd64a:~/dev2/cm3/m3-ui/zeus/AMD64_LINUX$ /cm3/bin/stubgen -v1 - 
> sno RemoteView.T   -T.M3IMPTAB
>
> usually fails:
>
> ***
> *** runtime error:
> ***    NEW() was unable to allocate more memory.
> ***    file "../src/runtime/common/RTAllocator.m3", line 285
> ***
>
> Formatter.m3:
>
> CONST ChunkSize = 128; (* Must be a power of 2 *)
>
> PROCEDURE New(wr: Wr.T;  width: CARDINAL:= 75): T RAISES {} =
>   BEGIN
>     WITH t = NEW(T) DO
>       t.wr := wr;
>       t.width := width;
>       t.indent := 0;
>
>       t.numChars := 0;
>
>       (* t.stream := RefStream{NIL, ..}; *)
>
>       t.buffer := NEW (ExprBuf, 4 * ChunkSize);  << this is the line  
> that fails
>
> Lowering chunk size to 64 seemed to make it succeed more often, but  
> not always.
> I think I'll go back to MIPS64_OPENBSD..probably easier to track  
> that problem down.
>
>  - Jay

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