From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: very long string and Segmentation fault
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:01:59 +0200
Date: 2006-07-08T07:01:59+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5804618.FkKYG9Xm5Y@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pan.2006.07.07.19.15.40.699002@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk
Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:24:52 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote:
>
>> zychp@o2.pl wrote:
>>
>>> I have problem with creating very long strings. When I try to create
>>> string bigger than 5MB I get Segmentation fault.
>>
>> Well, you should not ;-) - its certainly a compiler bug.
>
> Actually, I think it is more of a feature(?)
>
> I first hit this with GNAT 3.15p (Linux). I think the explanation
> was that the "new" was allocated on the stack when the data weren't
> being kept after the function returns. It's called "optimization",
> apparently. I had to resort to various tricks to get it to use
> heap allocation instead. (making the size non-static might help.
> Calling malloc instead works.) Very messy.
Library Level access type ???
Martin
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2006-07-07 8:39 very long string and Segmentation fault zychp
2006-07-07 18:24 ` Martin Krischik
2006-07-07 19:17 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-07-07 19:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-07-08 5:01 ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2006-07-11 9:29 ` zychp
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