Re: [Caml-list] cywgin stack overflow

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, skaller wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 00:00 +1000, skaller wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 09:44 -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> []
> > > Do try to increase the available memory -- the amount Cygwin
> > > allocates by default is rather small (256M, I believe).  Another
> > > possibility is to run the compilation under strace to see why it
> > > exits.
> >
> > Yes, I can try that .. a bit messy (dual booting, I lose all
> > the email with nice info like this when running Cygwin).
>
> OK, the full story is:
>
> ocamlopt.opt: fails without message
> ocamlopt: fails with Stack overflow message
> ocamlc: compiles the file to *.cmo (correctly, I assume)
>
> this is with Cygwin set to 1024M memory using regtool.
> I didn't try ocamlc.opt.

Ouch.  Is there a place I can find information on how stacks are
implemented in Ocaml without having to wade through source?
Particularly, I imagine the options to increase stack size of the
executable compiled with ocamlopt would not be the same as for gcc...
	Igor
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