From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Segfault with humongous heap size
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:56:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FEC4C68B-1486-47C2-99FB-3E3D5BE73D90@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimr-ZkOVtm_-xcUgfz1NxFFtEtjx-J3B0VxCzhf@mail.gmail.com>
On 2010-09-02, at 13:23, Paul Steckler wrote:
> If I enter this in my shell:
>
> declare -x OCAMLRUNPARAM="h=3200000000"
>
> every OCaml program I run yields a segfault. I have OCaml 3.11.1+rc1 installed
> on Fedora 12 x64.
>
> Of course, that heap size, 3.2G words, is larger than the memory I
> have installed, but
> still, I shouldn't get a segfault.
That's due to a stupid bug in parsing OCAMLRUNPARAM, compounded by a missing
check for the error code returned. It will be fixed in 3.12.1. In the meantime,
just use multipliers:
declare -x OCAMLRUNPARAM=h=3200M
-- Damien
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