Re: [Chicken-users] The odd case of the channel egg's tests failures

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

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On 01/29/2013 08:16 PM, Felix wrote:
>> I'm turning to you because I have no idea how to continue with analyzing
>> a very odd behavior of my channel egg's test cases. Basically, they have
>> been failing on Salmonella from the very beginning with this error:
>>
>>   [panic] out of memory - heap full while resizing - execution terminated
>
> This usually means an inconsistent heap: some random data is interpreted as
> a proper Scheme object and the header contains some huge size indicator.

Ah, that old chestnut. The full Ugarit unit-test suite currently does
that, but without causing a test failure, as it's a subprocess that says
that - in the process of exiting, after having passed all its tests.
Occasionally I mull it over and try to make sense of the dizzying list
of seemingly unrelated things that make it happen or not happen.

Valgrind is a good idea, I'll try that...

ABS

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