[Openmcl-devel] Error: Function size exceeds compiler limitation.

Ron Garret ron at flownet.com
Thu Apr 25 07:41:42 PDT 2019


Look at the end.  It’s truncated.

On Apr 25, 2019, at 7:18 AM, Andrew Shalit <alms at clozure.com> wrote:

> It’s surprising that the example Mark gave would exceed that limit. It doesn’t look like a particularly huge function.
> 
> Andrew
> 
>> On Apr 25, 2019, at 2:00 AM, R. Matthew Emerson <rme at acm.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 24, 2019, at 10:10 PM, Mark Klein <m_klein at mit.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> My lisp code is generates a simple lambda expression that I then pass to the (compile) function. If the lambda expression is big enough  (e.g. 1.6 megabytes), lisp throws the following error:
>>> 
>>> > Error: Function size exceeds compiler limitation.
>>> > While executing: CCL::COMPILER-FUNCTION-OVERFLOW, in process listener(1).
>>> 
>>> I guess CCL has a limit on how big an individual function it will compile. Is that limit something I can change? I don’t have an obvious way to break the lambda expression into multiple smaller ones. 
>> 
>> There's a limit, but it can't be trivially increased, unfortunately.  I believe it has to do with the number of labels generated in intermediate code.  More than 256K labels causes the error.
>> 
>> -m
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Here, FYI, is a snippet of the kind of lambda expression I’m generating. It’s just one giant nested if statement with a bunch of inequalities:
>>> 
>>> (LAMBDA (CONTRACT)
>>>   (DECLARE (TYPE ARRAY CONTRACT))
>>>   (DECLARE (OPTIMIZE (SAFETY 0) (SPEED 3)))
>>>   (LET ((V9 (CVAL CONTRACT 9))
>>>         (V5 (CVAL CONTRACT 5))
>>>         (V12 (CVAL CONTRACT 12))
>>>         (V14 (CVAL CONTRACT 14))
>>>         (V3 (CVAL CONTRACT 3))
>>>         (V4 (CVAL CONTRACT 4))
>>>         (V30 (CVAL CONTRACT 30))
>>>         (V23 (CVAL CONTRACT 23))
>>>         (V28 (CVAL CONTRACT 28))
>>>         (V8 (CVAL CONTRACT 8))
>>>         (V17 (CVAL CONTRACT 17))
>>>         (V20 (CVAL CONTRACT 20))
>>>         (V26 (CVAL CONTRACT 26))
>>>         (V19 (CVAL CONTRACT 19))
>>>         (V22 (CVAL CONTRACT 22))
>>>         (V11 (CVAL CONTRACT 11))
>>>         (V15 (CVAL CONTRACT 15))
>>>         (V13 (CVAL CONTRACT 13))
>>>         (V6 (CVAL CONTRACT 6))
>>>         (V10 (CVAL CONTRACT 10))
>>>         (V29 (CVAL CONTRACT 29))
>>>         (V25 (CVAL CONTRACT 25))
>>>         (V16 (CVAL CONTRACT 16))
>>>         (V27 (CVAL CONTRACT 27))
>>>         (V24 (CVAL CONTRACT 24))
>>>         (V7 (CVAL CONTRACT 7))
>>>         (V2 (CVAL CONTRACT 2))
>>>         (V1 (CVAL CONTRACT 1))
>>>         (V18 (CVAL CONTRACT 18))
>>>         (V21 (CVAL CONTRACT 21)))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V9))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V5))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V12))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V14))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V3))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V4))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V30))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V23))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V28))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V8))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V17))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V20))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V26))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V19))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V22))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V11))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V15))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V13))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V6))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V10))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V29))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V25))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V16))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V27))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V24))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V7))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V2))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V1))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V18))
>>>     (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V21))
>>>     (OR (IF (<= V21 10)
>>>             (IF (>= V18 3)
>>>                 (IF (>= V1 9)
>>>                     (IF (>= V2 5)
>>>                         (IF (>= V7 8)
>>>                             (IF (<= V24 14)
>>>                                 (IF
>>> 
>>> ----------------------
>>> Mark Klein, PhD
>>> Principal Research Scientist
>>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>> http://cci.mit.edu/klein/
>>> 
>>> 
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