[Openmcl-devel] Sudden increment in executable image size.

[Gail Zacharias]

What os version are you on? And what version of the C compiler?  I was
seeing a similar problem a while back and it turned out it was a C
compiler bug.

On Thursday, November 18, 2010, Kaz Kylheku <kaz at kylheku.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:01:21 -0800, Kaz Kylheku <kaz at kylheku.com>
> wrote:
>> It turns out that the heap size suddenly jumps after the very last file
>> is loaded.
>
> I have isolated it to the use of a particular macro (mine, not CCL's)
> in that file.
>
> If I stub the macro out so that it does nothing, the bizarre size
> increment goes away.
>
> There is now only one SIMPLE-FIXNUM-VECTOR in the heap, and it's tiny.
>
> I have a hunch the instability probably won't reproduce either.
>
> The macro isn't recursive or anything silly like that. I don't
> see how it could lead to several huge fixnum vectors being produced
> at macro-expansion-time, let alone destabilization.
>
> Thanks for the hints. I will drill into this further.
>
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