7.8.1 plan

[Austin Seipp]

Actually, the 0x200000 for the reserve was just the default in the
executable - I just set it out based on what peflags told me
initially.

Thank you again Kyrill!

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:32 AM, kyra <kyrab at mail.ru> wrote:
> 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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>>>
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>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
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>>
>>
>>
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Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/