And the solution finds itself within minutes of hitting the send button: my 
setup looked like it was using the 64bit version of poly, but was actually 
running the 32bit version. Just forgot to set a path correctly.

Sorry for the spam.

Cheers,
Gerwin


> On 17.05.2015, at 08:57, Gerwin Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’m running into problems with large heap sizes on 64bit Darwin.
> 
> The machine I’m running on has 32GB physical memory, and runs out of polyml 
> memory on sessions that take about 12GB on 64bit Linux. The error message is
> 
> val it = (): unit
> ML> Exception- SysErr ("Cannot allocate memory", SOME ENOMEM) raised
> 
> (This is from an Isabelle build of the image CBaseRefine in 
> https://github.com/seL4/l4v/tree/master/proof)
> 
> The initial heap size was specified as “-H 2000”. Playing around with that 
> option, I got for instance for “-H 8000” the message:
> 
> "Value of -H option is too large"
> 
> I’m getting the same for trying to increase —maxheap. The same -H 8000 option 
> on a 64-bit Linux machine works fine.
> 
> The check that throws this error seems to be:
> 
> libpolyml/mpoly.cpp:177
> 
>    // Check that the number of kbytes is less than the address space.
>    // The value could overflow when converted to bytes.
>    if (result >= ((POLYUNSIGNED)1 << (SIZEOF_VOIDP*8 - 10)))
>        Usage("Value of %s option is too large\n", arg);
> 
> As far as I can see, config sets the value of SIZEOF_VOIDP to 8 on both 
> platforms, so I’m a bit mystified why one works and the other doesn’t.
> 
> The polyml version is 5.5.2 (-3 in the Isabelle distribution, but same 
> problem for vanilla 5.5.2).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> Gerwin
> 
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