Re: [Chicken-users] Segfault with large data-structures (bug)

2013-02-04 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Feb 4, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Felix wrote: > > Perhaps, but I really don't see a problem of allowing a limit > on heap allocation in the runtime system. I think a segfault is an appropriate response to OOM, but I wonder if it's possible to panic() instead if the heap size can't be increased as nee

Re: [Chicken-users] Segfault with large data-structures (bug)

2013-02-04 Thread Felix
From: Peter Bex Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Segfault with large data-structures (bug) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:16:47 +0100 > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:10:16AM +0100, Felix wrote: >> > But why not just use ulimit? It can be set per process, so I don't see >> > the need to have a second ulimit-l

[Chicken-users] Syslog openlog segfaults

2013-02-04 Thread Sascha Ziemann
I am running the following test on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago): $ uname -m x86_64 $ getconf LONG_BIT 64 $ cat crash.scm #! /usr/xxx/bin/csi -s (use syslog) (openlog #f opt/pid facility/local0) $ csi crash.scm CHICKEN (c)2008-2011 The Chicken Team (c)2000-2007 Felix L

Re: [Chicken-users] The odd case of the channel egg's tests failures

2013-02-04 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
cleaning up my backlog, sorry for the late reply On Jan 31 2013, Felix wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/29/2013 08:16 PM, Felix wrote: I'm turning to you because I have no idea how to continue with analyzing a very odd behavior of my channel egg's test cases. Basica

Re: [Chicken-users] Missing link flags in SDL egg for Chicken

2013-02-04 Thread Christian Kellermann
Hi Agrest, * Agrest [130204 00:32]: > Hello! > > I've found the bug in the SDL egg. > > If the egg is installed via ``chicken-install``, any program segfaults > on (ttf-init). However, it works when the SDL egg is installed using > the Makefile supplied. > > My system is Ubuntu 12.04. > > I'