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From: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
To: Christophe Raffalli <christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>
Cc: Caml List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlc, ocamlopt stackoverflow on list
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:15:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPFanBHp0zSD1bL5U-+Cz3cuMgpRczEAbZJQa0UbCU0M7vPb5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B8B527.3020800@univ-savoie.fr>

It works with small lists, blows up with a Stack Overflow on a
really-unbalanced parsetree, I would really assume it is a
tail-recursion issue. I checked that the failure happens after parsing
time (-dparsetree produces an output); camlp4 must also have a
(different) non-tail-rec code path somewhere.

The easiest way to find out where this particular instance
of the problem lies would be to build a version of the compiler
with debug information and invoke
  OCAMLRUNPARAM="b ocamlc ...

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Christophe Raffalli
<christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr> wrote:
>
> I Think with list of size 30000 it might not be only a problem of tailrec (it seems
> to fail to parse in fact with a difference error message with ocamlc and ocamlc -pp camlp4o).

      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-30 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-31  9:26 [Caml-list] Higher order functors over tuples Ivan Gotovchits
2012-10-31 11:09 ` Didier Cassirame
2012-10-31 12:02   ` Ivan Gotovchits
2012-11-30 12:49   ` [Caml-list] ocamlc, ocamlopt stackoverflow on list Christophe Raffalli
2012-11-30 13:20     ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-11-30 13:31       ` Christophe Raffalli
2012-11-30 14:15         ` Gabriel Scherer [this message]

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