On 2002.07.30 21:01 Alexander V.Voinov wrote:
> Hi
> 
> ocamlc crashes at some of the sources of the mentioned modules.
> 
> Under Linux/x86 it crashed on 
> 
> ocamlfind ocamlc -g  -package "netstring" -c pxp_document.ml
> ocamlc got signal and exited
> 
> Under Solaris/Sparc it crashed on the netstring as well. Netstring
> (and PXP) compiled OK in the same environment under 3.04.

Hi,

yesterday I already got a similar report from Michaël Marchegay, and
I could reproduce the problem. I submitted a bug report (23:44),
and Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez fixed the problem until 15:36.
Really phantastic response time!

You can read the bug report with some more details how to
circumvent the problem:

http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs/fixed?id=1273;page=44;user=guest

For your convenience, I have the attached the patch. Apply it
as follows:

cd ocaml-3.05/byterun
patch -p0 <../../whereever-your-patch-is/patch

Then rebuild the whole system:

cd ..
make clean
make world opt opt.opt

It would be sufficient to rebuild ocamlrun and all statically linked
binaries, there is no change in the libraries (except libcamlrun.a), 
but I don't know how to do this.

I think O'Caml-3.05 is still worth to be tried, there are numerous
improvements, and at least for me this GC bug does not prevent me
from using this version. It is not a fundamental problem, only a 
single error.

Gerd
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