Hi Matt, This patch is because the number of .constant decls in IMCC is limited to 4096. This is a todo to make this dynamic. The evil code seems to have about 4200 .constant decls being generated.
Here is the patch to fix it. For now I bumped up the limit to 8192 and it works. But this is a TODO for sure. I ran the after bumnping up the limit and it seems to work. After applying the patch If you have lex perl Configure.pl --lex=lex If you have flex perl Configure.pl --lex=lex make -Vishal Index: compilers/imcc/imcc.l =================================================================== --- compilers/imcc/imcc.l (revision 13220) +++ compilers/imcc/imcc.l (working copy) @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ }; /* XXX: boe: rework this hack to use a hash */ -#define N_MACROS 4096 +#define N_MACROS 8192 struct macro_t macros[N_MACROS]; int num_macros = 0; On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 20:49 -0700, Matt Diephouse wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Matt Diephouse > # Please include the string: [perl #39777] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39777 > > > > The attached file, which has a ~10000 line subroutine, makes IMCC > segfault. Segfault bad. > > -- > Matt Diephouse >
