From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA29751; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:13:35 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA29935 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:13:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from inria.fr (macaque.inria.fr [128.93.8.158]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h0GDDQr24944; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:13:26 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:15:05 +0100 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Size limit on marshalling? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: "Caml List " To: "Yaron M. Minsky" From: Damien Doligez In-Reply-To: <29027.141.155.88.179.1042665949.squirrel@minsky-primus.homeip.net> Message-Id: <8795BE9C-2954-11D7-AFEF-0003930FCE12@inria.fr> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Yaron M. Minsky wrote: > First, I create a pointlessly large array, and then save it to disk: [...] > The resulting file is 38400025 bytes long. Note that the length > appears > to be critical. [...] > # let ar = (get_value "foo.val" : string array);; > # let ar = ();; > # Gc.compact ();; This is a known bug (PR#1495) with compaction and demarshalling of very large values. It is already fixed in the development version. Please contact me if you need a patch. -- Damien ------------------- 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