]> I've been getting some fairly inexplicable crashes on marshalling and unmarshalling values, and I'm wondering if anyone has an idea why. Here's a code snippet that will crash my copy of ocaml. First, I create a pointlessly large array, and then save it to disk: # let save_value fname value = let file = open_out_bin fname in output_value file value; close_out file;; val save_value : string -> 'a -> unit = <fun> # let ar = Array.init (10000 * 256) (fun i -> String.copy "fooobar doobar");; # save_value "/home/yminsky/foo.val" ar;; The resulting file is 38400025 bytes long. Note that the length appears to be critical. If you replace "fooobar doobar' with "foobar doobar", the problem goes away. At this point, I start a new session of ocaml and reload the value, and then ensure that it is garbage collected. That's when I get the segfault. # let ar = (get_value "foo.val" : string array);; # let ar = ();; # Gc.compact ();; And that's when I get the segfault. So, any thoughts? Is this a bug? Or just some unspoken limit of the compiler? This is a dummy example, but this is a real limit I'm running up against in my code. Yaron -- |--------/ Yaron M. Minsky \--------| |--------\ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/yminsky/ /--------| Open PGP --- KeyID B1FFD916 (new key as of Dec 4th) Fingerprint: 5BF6 83E1 0CE3 1043 95D8 F8D5 9F12 B3A9 B1FF D916 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners