On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Yaron M. Minsky wrote:

> First, I create a pointlessly large array, and then save it to disk:
[...]
> The resulting file is 38400025 bytes long.  Note that the length 
> appears
> to be critical.
[...]
> # let ar = (get_value "foo.val" : string array);;
> # let ar = ();;
> # Gc.compact ();;

This is a known bug (PR#1495) with compaction and demarshalling
of very large values.  It is already fixed in the development version.

Please contact me if you need a patch.

-- Damien

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