On Wednesday 09 August 2006 03:00, Denis Bueno wrote:
> | $ ocamlc -g -c spit_etest.ml
> | Fatal error: exception Stack_overflow
>
> `----
>
> I really have no idea where to start, whether it's my fault or
> ocamlc's. I have included some relevant system information [1].
>
> Could someone point my in the right direction?

The OCaml compilers aren't entirely tail recursive so they sometimes overflow 
the stack on large input (especially autogenerated code). Easiest fixes:

1. Use ocamlc.opt because native code gets a bigger stack.
2. Use a bigger bytecode stack, set via the environment variable CAMLRUNPARAM.

You can also get stack overflows by compiling with -rectypes and linking 
without it. I assume the type checker goes into infinite non-tail 
recursion...

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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