Re: [Caml-list] Heaps size problems with "caml_alloc_small" in foreign function interfaces

[Sean Seefried <sean.seefried@nicta.com.au>]

Could you give me a pointer to information on root registration?

What frustrates me is that this is CamlIDL generated code. Shouldn't  
it just work?

Sean

On 12/07/2008, at 0:11, Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> wrote:

>> I'm having a problem where sometimes a call to "caml_alloc_small"  
>> from C
>> results in a segmentation fault. If I increase the size of the stack
>> using OCAMLRUNPARAM=s=1000k then I don't get the crash anymore. It  
>> seems
>> strange that I have to increase the size of the heap manually like  
>> this.
>
> It's probably a root registration problem.  These are very sensitive
> to the times when GC is triggered, which themselves are sensitive to
> the heap sizes and memory behavior of your program.
>
>> If I want to increase the size of the heap in C how do I do this?  
>> Could
>> I write a "safe" caml_alloc_small which first checks to see if  
>> there is
>> enough memory and then increases the heap size if not?
>
> Don't try to hack around the real problem, but do make available a
> repro case, no matter how large, on a Web site or as attachment to a
> problem report on the bug tracking system, so that others can have a
> look at it.
>
> - Xavier Leroy