Re: Memory leak and/or excessive compiler memory use in 32-bit systems

[Matt Birkholz]

trigger-secondary-gc-daemons!?  That one got me (several years ago). 
It seems the only caller is gc-clean.  A surprising number of things
hang around until secondary gc daemons are... summoned?

On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 17:09 +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> I haven't been able to do a complete test run on 32-bit systems for a
> while.  If I run `make check', it consistently runs out of memory
> trying to compile test-floenv.scm or test-flonum.scm.  However, if I
> just compile the file in a fresh Scheme, it works fine, so
> 
> (a) there's probably some memory leak in the test suite, and
> (b) there's probably some excessive compiler data structures.
> 
> I tried the attached string of patches to work around this, and it
> worked to get test-floenv.scm compiling, and it made some progress
> through test-flonum.scm, but it still runs out of memory partway
> through.
> 
> This is not a very high priority so I'm not going to spend much more
> time on it for a while.