>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Toy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raymond> William Brew wrote:
>> Oops, I included the transcript twice. Attached is the
>> lisp code.
Raymond> Thanks for the code. I can reproduce the problem.
Raymond> And, more importantly, I think I know what's causing it. I think the
Raymond> default stack on Solaris is 8 MB. That is not enough. (parse-programs
Raymond> 6 1500 1000) will cause a core dump. If I up the stack to 16 MB, it
Raymond> purifies without problem.
Raymond> I guess you are creating something that is deeply nested and pscav is
Raymond> calling itself recursively many, many times and the stack is exhausted.
FWIW, I measured this, and there are at least 17000 nested calls to
pscav. A stack frame is at least 64 bytes, and each call to pscav
from pscav has a couple of other calls, so we're talking at least 3 MB
of stack.
So does increasing the stack help? Or does your real application
exhibit some other problem now? It would be nice to know.
Ray
