Re: guile-1.8.5 test failures

["Peter O'Gorman" <pogma@thewrittenword.com>]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:57:25PM +0100, Neil Jerram wrote:
> 2008/5/29 Peter O'Gorman <bug-guile@mlists.thewrittenword.com>:

> In another thread, Ludovic measured a value of 0.07 for the calibrated
> m value on ia64-unknown-linux-gnu:
> 
> > * ia64-unknown-linux-gnu (itanium2), GCC 4.1.2
> >   ;; Stack calibration: (x1 x2 y1 y2 m c) = (170 690 10 50 0.0769230769230769 -3.07692307692308)
> 
> This means that calibration reduces the maximum allowed stack depth
> from 20000 to 1400 words.

I rebuilt, it shows:
 ./pre-inst-guile -q
;; Stack calibration: (x1 x2 y1 y2 m c) = (170 690 12 52
0.0769230769230769 -1.07692307692308)
Backtrace:
In unknown file:
   ?:  93* [try-module-autoload (ice-9 syncase)]
   ?:  94  (let* (# # # #) (resolve-module dir-hint-module-name #f) (and
# #))
   ?:  95* [resolve-module (ice-9) #f]
   ?:  96  (let* ((full-name #)) (let* (#) (if already # #)))
   ?:  97  (let* ((already #)) (if already (if # # already) (begin #
#)))
   ?:  98* [nested-ref #<module (guile) 400a0970> (%app modules ice-9)]
   ?:  99  [loop #<module (guile) 400a0970> (%app modules ice-9)]
     ...
   ?: 100  [loop ...
   ?: 101*  [module-ref #<module (guile) 400a0970> %app #f]
   ?: 102   (let* ((variable #)) (if (and variable #) (variable-ref
variable) ...))
   ?: 103*  [module-variable #<module (guile) 400a0970> %app]
   ?: 104   [module-search #<procedure module-local-variable #> # %app]
      ...
   ?: 105   (or (fn m v) (loop (module-uses m)))
   ?: 106*  [module-local-variable #<module (guile) 400a0970> %app]
   ?: 107   (let* ((b #)) (or (and # b) (and # #)))
   ?: 108*  [module-obarray-ref ...
   ?: 109*   [module-obarray #<module (guile) 400a0970>]
   ?: 110    (if (eq? # #) (struct-ref obj 0) (%record-type-error #
obj))
   ?: 111*   [eq? ...
   ?: 112*    (struct-vtable obj)

<unnamed port>: In expression (struct-vtable obj):
<unnamed port>: Stack overflow

I am doubtful that ia64-hp-hpux's problems with guile will be solved by
fixing the stack overflow patch.

Thanks,
Peter
-- 
Peter O'Gorman
pogma@thewrittenword.com