Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Flow-analysis enhancement for assigned variables

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:49:15AM +0100, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> I'm asking this because I'm trying for several weeks to track
> down a certain segfault.  As it happens I can observe that
> one only on ARM, never on AMD64.  It occurs randomly and rare
> enough to make a full call trace a no-go. (Still often enough
> to be grave.)

Are you running a recent enough Chicken?  Jim recently fixed a one-off
error in the allocation of symbol memory which rarely get triggered.
Possibly you're seeing the effects of this bug, so it might help to
update if you aren't running this fix yet.
See changeset 4685d89bbbb153353be2175387cd74204fc246ec

Cheers,
Peter
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