Re: [Chicken-janitors] #910: Failure with many arguments on amd64

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#910: Failure with many arguments on amd64
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  Reporter:  sjamaan         |       Owner:       
      Type:  defect          |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  critical        |   Milestone:  4.9.0
 Component:  core libraries  |     Version:  4.8.x
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:       
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Comment(by ckeen):

 My impressions so far:

 It does crash, but I need a whole load of numbers to get it that far, see
 the attached script.
 When I run it with valgrind, it does *not* crash however. Also valgrind
 does not complain about leakage:

 {{{
 ==20622==
 ==20622== HEAP SUMMARY:
 ==20622==     in use at exit: 1,192,896 bytes in 1,696 blocks
 ==20622==   total heap usage: 1,705 allocs, 9 frees, 1,219,644 bytes
 allocated
 ==20622==
 ==20622== LEAK SUMMARY:
 ==20622==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
 ==20622==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
 ==20622==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
 ==20622==    still reachable: 1,192,896 bytes in 1,696 blocks
 ==20622==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
 ==20622== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
 ==20622==
 }}}

 Looks good to me...

 This has been chicken Version 4.7.5 (rev e061038)
 linux-unix-gnu-x86-64 [ 64bit manyargs dload ptables ]

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