Re: [Larceny-users] Larceny Panic: Can't allocate an object of size ...

2016-02-05 Thread William D Clinger
Sven Hartrumpf wrote: > Is there a way to avoid the following compiler crash? Sorry about that. In my experience, this error means Larceny's assembler tried to create a single monolithic chunk of x86 machine code whose size was the reported 17536520 bytes, which is larger than the maximum

Re: [Larceny-users] Larceny Panic: Can't allocate an object of size ...

2016-02-05 Thread Lars T Hansen
16MB ought to be enough for anybody :) The problem is likely the object layout for vectors, bytevectors, procedures, and strings, which restricts the length field (which has a byte count) to 24 bits. A 64-bit Larceny runtime would help. I don't think such a runtime exists yet. --lars On Fri,