-[ Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:44:15PM +0100, Stefan Israelsson Tampe ]---- > The whole macro-expansion to tree-il in psyntax is not done in a tail call > manner which limits the sizes > of code tree's that we can compile. Although it would be interesting to > know how to code the > psyntax expand algorithm in such a way that we don't risk blowing the > stack, I think we > will be better served by waiting for better stack algorithm that implement > growing stacks.
If it was not obvious already I must confess I'm ignorant about the internals of guile (and of any other scheme compiler), so what I will say is probably irrelevant. but I changed the cond into the equivalent if forms, which I believe are not macros, but the result is the same (stack overflow). > An alternate feature request is to have some way to tell guile the size of > the stack at start up. If though that was what '(debug-set! stack x)' was for, but this does not seams to change anything. I also tried changing stack limits with ulimit to no avail. > For now anyone that need to compile large functions the only option, I > believe, is to change the stack size in the code > and recompile. Any hint on how to do that specifically for guile, beyond the above ulimit/setrlimit?
