[mercury-users] Crash on MacOS X

[Michael Day]

Hi Julien,

> * Does disabling Mercury optimizations make the problem go away,
>   e.g., compiling with MCFLASG = -O0?

With -O0 the crash report is slightly different:

Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0xbf7fffc8
0x0021d77a in GC_clear_stack_inner ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0021d77a in GC_clear_stack_inner ()
Cannot access memory at address 0xbf7fffc8
Cannot access memory at address 0xbf7fffcc

> * Does disabling optimizations at the C level make the problem go away,
>   e.g. compiling with --cflags="-O0"?

Still, crashes, but much much faster and earlier in the execution progress:

Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0xbf7ffc6c
0x00595988 in prepack__text__hyphenate_word_6_p_0 
(prepack__text__Style_7=40981952, prepack__text__Buf0_8=0, 
prepack__text__PrevNum0_9=0, prepack__text__Accum0_10=91898305, 
prepack__text__Segs0_11=0, prepack__text__Segs_12=0xbf802a18) at 
../prepack/text.m:472
472	:- mode hyphenate_word(in, in, in, in, in, out) is det.

> * What version of gcc are you using?

i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)

> * Does the problem occur if you compile your program in none.gc?
>   (note: `none' is the only low-level C base grade that works reliably
>   on Mac OS / x86)

It appears to work when compiled with none.gc. Further testing required. 
Do you think that hlc.gc is not worth the risk on MacOS X?

Cheers,

Michael

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