Re: [Chicken-hackers] CHICKEN 4.9.0rc1 is available

[Alan Post]

My experience compiling both Chicken and my eggs on an AWS tiny
instance is that it can lead to an internal compiler error like
the one below.  stopping daemons and other memory-intensive
processes would correct the problem.

Based on that experience, I assume the error below is physical
memory exhaustion.

-a

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:32:51PM -0600, Erik Falor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 01:13:11PM +0000, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The first release candidate for CHICKEN 4.9.0 has been released.
> 
> [Reposting this message to the list since I didn't notice that I sent
> it just to Mario last time]
> 
> I've built CHICKEN 4.9.0rc1 on my Raspberry Pi.
> 
> Operating system: Slackwarearm-14.1 (Linux 3.10.27-arm)
> Hardware platform: armv6l
> C Compiler: GCC 4.8.2
> Installation works?: yes
> Tests work?: no
> Installation of eggs works?: yes
> 
> Building eggs (or anything) is very slow going on the Pi, so I haven't
> tested as many as I'd like. But after some hours of compiling, each of
> the eggs I've tried so far have worked. See the attachment if you
> care which ones those are.
> 
> Earlier today I had run `make check` and received a message about a
> CHICKEN process running out of memory. I closed that terminal before
> thinking to copy the output. Then again, I have one of the 1st
> generation Pi's with <256 MB of RAM; perhaps other users won't run
> into that same problem.
> 
> Another attempt to run `make check` failed with GCC crashing on one of
> the runtime tests. Perhaps GCC is also running out of memory:
> 
> ======================================== runtime tests ...
> testing 'apply' with 0..126 (maximum apply argument count)...
> If this segfaults on x86-64, try updating GCC (4.5 has a code-generation bug):
> invoking directly with 0..50...
> invoking directly with 76..126 (maximum interpreted direct argument count)...
> testing 'apply' can detect calls of too many arguments...
> testing direct invocation can detect calls of too many arguments...
> /mnt/rasp/build/chicken/viking/chicken-4.9.0rc1/tests/../chicken
> apply-test.scm' -output-file 'a.c' -types ../types.db
> -ignore-repository -verbose -include-path
> /mnt/rasp/build/chicken/viking/chicken-4.9.0rc1/tests/..
> (don't worry - still compiling...)
> 'gcc' 'a.c' -o 'a.o' -c -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv
> -DHAVE_CHICKEN_CONFIG_H -DC_ENABLE_PTABLES -Os -fomit-frame-pointer
> -I/mnt/rasp/build/chicken/viking/chicken-4.9.0rc1/tests/.. 
> -I"/usr/local/stow/chicken-4.9.0rc1/include/chicken"
> gcc: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1)
> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.
> 
> Error: shell command terminated with non-zero exit status 1024: 'gcc'
> a.c' -o 'a.o' -c -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -DHAVE_CHICKEN_CONFIG_H
> -DC_ENABLE_PTABLES -Os -fomit-frame-pointer
> -I/mnt/rasp/build/chicken/viking/chicken-4.9.0rc1/tests/.. 
> -I"/usr/local/stow/chicken-4.9.0rc1/include/chicken"
> 
> -- 
> Erik Falor
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