7.8.1 plan

[kyra]

Btw,  it is committed size which is important here. I proposed to 
increase both only to follow Linux/OSX linker policy which sets stack 
size to be 8mb by default, otherwise we could stay at 1mb for both 
reserved (windows' default value) and committed values.

Regards,
Kyra

On 03.04.2014 18:00, Austin Seipp wrote:
> Kyrill, you are fantastic! I confirmed this incantation seems to have
> fixed the problem on my build:
>
> $ peflags --stack-reserve=0x200000 --stack-commit=0x200000 ghc.exe
>
> with the RC2 build, and not my own. Hooray!
>
> I will work up something soon. Thanks so much again!
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:
>> Oh excellent, thank you for the tip Kyrill, I had no idea about this!
>> My build is on the way, so I will try this and report back soon.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:34 AM, kyra <kyrab at mail.ru> wrote:
>>> On 4/3/2014 17:15, Austin Seipp wrote:
>>>> Right now, Kyrill has suggested a fix I'm attempting (I slightly
>>>> botched my first try), and I have found a way to avoid it at the
>>>> moment by turning off optimization (which seems to reduce stack
>>>> pressure enough to get by on Windows - see the ticket for details).
>>> It's absolutely not necessary to rebuild everything to check if this works,
>>> it's enough to edit ghc.exe with peflags utility (which has --stack-reserve
>>> and --stack-commit options) and look if it stop segfaulting. If I could
>>> reproduce the problem I'd have done this long ago.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Kyra
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
>> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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