Thanks, it seems the exception is raised by the function grow_stacks() in
the 'Parsing' module of Ocaml (not mine).
Indeed, looking at the code I can see several calls to Array.create that are
not encapsulated in a try .. with. Isn't that a bug ?

Anyway I think I found the answer of my problem.

Cheers!

2011/1/4 Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>

> On 2011-01-04 15:41, Jean Krivine wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am encountering a weird problem, I am trying to parse a very large file
> > (around 1.2 GB) according to a grammar defined in ocamlyacc.
>
> On a 32-bit or 64-bit architecture?
>
> > During the parsing I get the exception
> >
> > Invalid_argument "Array.make".
> >
> > This  is strange because I am not using any array.
>
> You can try calling 'Printexc.record_backtrace true' on startup, and
> compile with -g. If you compile to bytecode the stacktrace will usually
> be better, but that is not always accurate either.
>
> Another way is to run your bytecode in ocamldebug, and use 'backstep'
> from the point where exception is raised.
>
> > My guess it that a big chunk of the file I am parsing is matching a non
> > terminal, something like
> >
> > rule:
> > non_term END {blah};
> >
> > where non_term is  going to be 1GB of characters. Does anyone know what
> > could be raising the exception ?
>
> Trying to allocate a too big array:
>
> #ifdef ARCH_SIXTYFOUR
> #define Max_wosize (((intnat)1 << 54) - 1)
> #else
> #define Max_wosize ((1 << 22) - 1)
> #endif
>    if (wsize > Max_wosize) caml_invalid_argument("Array.make");
> >
> > Thanks!
> > J
> >
>
>
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