About Space is low

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Sep 25 13:13:01 UTC 2004


Thanks I will try your fix,
I'm on mac using john vm so does it make sense.
Should this fix be in 3.8?

Stef
On 25 sept. 04, at 14:35, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 11:26:52AM +0200, stéphane ducasse wrote:
>>
>> I continued slowly to check the method producing problems for the
>> decompiler test and
>> suddenly I got a space low....I was wondering why because all the
>> decompiled methods should
>> be GCed and I got also the problem that I could not stop(apple-.) did
>> not work, I could not clic
>> on the abandon buttons of the dialog box.
>> see bugs.impara.de
>
> The fix for "space low impossible to exit nor clic on button" in in 
> BFAV
> under the "Reviewed" tab. The title is:
>
>   "Re: [bug][FIX] stack overflow crashes Squeak. (one-line fix 
> attached)"
>
> Note that this bug causes different symptoms for Squeak depending on 
> whether
> your VM allocates new object memory space dynamically. For example, if 
> you
> were using a Unix VM and you did not use the "-memory NN" command line
> parameter, you would get the symptoms that you described above. So it 
> is
> a tricky bug, but fortunately the fix affects only one line of code.
>
> Dave
>
>




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