From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix, from userid 25991) id C4F60BC57; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 03:51:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 03:51:18 +0100 From: Daniel de Rauglaudre To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Causes for segfaults Message-ID: <20101106025118.GA23041@yquem.inria.fr> References: <384325291.294734.1288998871132.JavaMail.root@zmbs3.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <384325291.294734.1288998871132.JavaMail.root@zmbs3.inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam: no; 0.00; rauglaudre:01 rauglaudre:01 segfaults:01 0100,:01 bytecode:01 bug:01 ulimit:01 bytecode:01 brandon:98 wrote:01 stack:01 stack:01 caml-list:01 transformed:02 compiling:02 Hi, On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 12:14:31AM +0100, Jamie Brandon wrote: I had a Segmentation Fault some days ago in native code. Compiling with bytecode, it raised Stack_overflow. The bug was that I called a non tail-recursive function. Is your stack size unlimited ? (command: ulimit -a) If it is, perhaps try to limit it and try again in bytecode to see if the Segmentation Fault is transformed into a Stack Overflow. -- Daniel de Rauglaudre http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/