Re: [Caml-list] Heaps size problems with "caml_alloc_small" in foreign function interfaces

[Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>]

> I'm having a problem where sometimes a call to "caml_alloc_small" from C
> results in a segmentation fault. If I increase the size of the stack
> using OCAMLRUNPARAM=s=1000k then I don't get the crash anymore. It seems
> strange that I have to increase the size of the heap manually like this.

It's probably a root registration problem.  These are very sensitive
to the times when GC is triggered, which themselves are sensitive to
the heap sizes and memory behavior of your program.

> If I want to increase the size of the heap in C how do I do this? Could
> I write a "safe" caml_alloc_small which first checks to see if there is
> enough memory and then increases the heap size if not?

Don't try to hack around the real problem, but do make available a
repro case, no matter how large, on a Web site or as attachment to a
problem report on the bug tracking system, so that others can have a
look at it.

- Xavier Leroy