From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Neil Jerram" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Stack calibration Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:11:23 +0100 Message-ID: <49dd78620810061611v2e67d646v29b479ca1fb23274@mail.gmail.com> References: <47B2A8DF.9070004@tammer.net> <87ejbfg4pr.fsf@gnu.org> <66e540fe0802140339n2121e1d9y85fcc9f019d8be0f@mail.gmail.com> <87prukog9w.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87hc8lw0q2.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <49dd78620809271120j17097ffq4da8f2b8dffd4efd@mail.gmail.com> <87abdsf337.fsf@gnu.org> <49dd78620809301510q173d1777rd26240ce40f204f0@mail.gmail.com> <49dd78620810021530u8f29699x88fa8c0241105a07@mail.gmail.com> <87d4ide4md.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223334703 28666 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2008 23:11:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?=" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 07 01:12:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KmzFi-0000fb-M7 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:12:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44195 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KmzEf-0005RH-2k for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KmzEb-0005Ph-JB for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KmzEa-0005Ot-V7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36537 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KmzEa-0005Oq-Si for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.251]:25527) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KmzEa-0005jd-Gj for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k29so3571239rvb.6 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:11:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=n7hzwbw4tItWb1A1xqMRkSrqRVC67vNjf0iRMrXMKuw=; b=aEzyqP0UxtPE5DLys3EBTJcn/eTzRJof6pWzVuhstyE3Cb1Iidc0V8N1bwLdfxNHqd Vi+BPwK8jK3M6gOi8CwsyB8gwfOor8jkiOpeIxdhJeGwA/Vri1sqx6x/vX7wH8suGg8Y vKiYKvPCa/NGWA+7rxWqLB3Vi+n5PDEvsD2oQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=i04wWuI+01UZTuLePEy3tgFfcLNIbyVY0Q7zhVqikQQ0W4i73iUQYlED/xZ7AbdbOl FJh+23O6b5JH9KgQ2VqFhsadm/8I9A2j8qbRARzxR2/s/VccLL/LP6Nudtz0d9tyGZHf sg9EjC4WvAbIrGuAZGJPZY1qwH6Ic3U5EdLSY= Original-Received: by 10.141.211.13 with SMTP id n13mr3415162rvq.184.1223334683406; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.140.142.15 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:11:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87d4ide4md.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7758 Archived-At: 2008/10/6 Ludovic Court=E8s : > Hello, > > Sorry for the latency... Hi, no problem! > "Neil Jerram" writes: > >> - The problem we actually need to solve is getting a stack overflow >> while running make and/or make check, and there may be other ways of >> doing that than trying to pick the right number, and to interpret that >> number such that it has the same effect on all platforms. > > You mean "is *not* getting a stack overflow", right? Well, the problem is getting a stack overflow; the objective is *not* to get one. :-) > >From that point of view, adding the right `eval-set!' incantation > somewhere in the test suite would suffice to fix the problem. Yes - except that it's (debug-set! stack ...). >> - Based on [2], it sounds like there is part of this issue that we >> don't yet understand - i.e. not just the stack growing bigger than the >> default 20000 words. > > What makes you say so? The message just shows that the test suite > sometimes triggers a stack overflow. Yes, but the point is that in that case, the calibration patch makes things worse! (And I've now followed up in more detail in that thread.) > Thanks, > Ludo'. Regards, Neil