Re: [Gcl-devel] Building GCL from CVS on Ubuntu 12.04

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Raymond Toy <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     Camm> I haven't updated cvs head recently as I've been trying to
>     Camm> solidify the experimental branch, which I hope to make the
>
> Oh.  Maybe I should try the experimental branch.
>

I'm working on it now.  Bootstrap is very slow.  I'll post a note when
its ready.

>     >> Why do you need a heap ceiling?  How would I find out a value
>     >> for Solaris/sparc?
>
>     Camm> gcl uses the sbrk system call to grow memory contiguously
>     Camm> from the end of the .data section of the executable.
>     Camm> Various systems load shared libraries at some arbitrary (but
>     Camm> 'basically' fixed) address above this point.  Alas, I have
>
> I'm not 100% sure about this, but there's a comment in the cmucl
> sources for sparc that says:
>
>  * It may be possible to increase the size of the dynamic spaces even
>  * further, but Casper H.S. Dik says shared libraries are loaded
>  * directly under the stack, so we need to leave some space for the C
>  * stack and shared libraries.  He also says the top of stack is
>  * 0xffbf0000 for Ultrasparcs in Solaris 7+, but it's 0xf0000000 for
>  * sun4m (and 4u in S2.6-) 0xe0000000 for sun4d)
>  *
>  * Shared libraries can be mapped anywhere there's room.
>
> I guess that means they aren't fixed, but you can grow to a fairly
> large value if you don't load up tons of shared libraries.
>

So we might be able to default to 0 for heap_ceiling, then.

Take care,

> Ray
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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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