Is the thrashing you're talking about occurring inside the actual compiler or inside chicken-boot.exe produced by the compiler? The infinite loop I get is inside chicken-boot.exe.
I tried the stack size thing, but it didn't fix. On 12/24/06, Brandon J. Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mark Baily wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble compiling v 2.5 on win32 using visual studio 2005. After using CMake to produce the .sln file for visual studio then building the Release (or MinSizeRelease) version, it gets to using chicken-boot.exeto compile stub.scm and sits there on 100% CPU usage in what appears to be an infinite loop. I read in an earlier thread someone else had this problem running inside a Parallels virtual machine, but I am not running inside a VM and still get the problem. I also read that it might be that Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition causes memory thrashing. However, I am using Visual Studio 2005 Academic Edition which is the full compiler. Also, the infinite loop does not occur inside the compiler itself but rather inside chicken-boot.exe. I also don't want to build using mingw as I need to link chicken with other visual studio 2005 apps/libraries; I'm not sure if this is possible with a mingw-chicken. Has anyone else come across the problem and know a solution? I guess I'll have to download VS 2005 Express and see if I can duplicate the behavior. At least we now know it isn't limited to the Parallels Virtual Machine, nor to VS 2005 Express. On MSVC we used to set C_DEFAULT_TARGET_STACK_SIZE=300000 to avoid some kind of thrashing problem. Something about Chicken emitting so many C functions and MSVC handling that gracelessly because of poor memory design. I was unable to observe any problem with my Visual Studio .NET 2003 compiler, so at one point I removed the code, but I left a historical footnote. Try changing line 863 of CMakeLists.txt SET(C_DEFAULT_TARGET_STACK_SIZE \(128*1024\)) to SET(C_DEFAULT_TARGET_STACK_SIZE 300000) and recompiling for MSVC. If that solves your problem then we know the culprit. If it doesn't, you might try a larger value. If that doesn't fix it, then we're back to head scratching. Cheers, Brandon Van Every _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
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