Re: [Chicken-janitors] #892: Segfault on insanely long lists

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#892: Segfault on insanely long lists
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  Reporter:  sjamaan   |       Owner:                   
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new              
  Priority:  critical  |   Milestone:  4.9.0            
 Component:  unknown   |     Version:  4.7.x            
Resolution:            |    Keywords:  segfaults are fun
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Comment(by sjamaan):

 Additional data: I verified (clumsily, by looking at top(1) output while
 the program ran) that the crash happens at the instant the maximum heap
 size is exceeded.  After increasing the heap size from 2G to 4G (via
 -:hm4G), the crash happened when the new maximum heap size was exceeded
 (which takes less than twice the time it takes 2G heap to get filled!).

 So something goes terribly wrong when the heap is full.  Also, why isn't
 the garbage cleaned up which gets left behind by the loop?

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/892#comment:3>
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