Re: [Chicken-users] size of the symbol table

[Felix Winkelmann]

Sven Hartrumpf wrote:
> On 10 Apr 2003, felix <address@hidden> wrote: 
>
> > > I read the documentation and found -:t
> > > -- a way to specify symbol table size.
> > >
> > > Is this parameter worth variating for maximal performance?
> >
> > Try it out. If you have *very* many symbols, it might improve
> > symbol table lookup.
>
>
> O.K. I will do some testing and report my findings if they look interesting. 
> Ooops! If I use -:t8 (-:t8k, ... all other values I tried with examples/mmcp
> and other programs), I get a "Segmentation fault":
>
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x4001cab0 in CHICKEN_parse_command_line ()
>    from /programs/free/chicken-cvs/lib/libuchicken.so.0
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x4001cab0 in CHICKEN_parse_command_line ()
>    from /programs/free/chicken-cvs/lib/libuchicken.so.0
> #1  0xbffff133 in ?? ()
> Cannot access memory at address 0x1
> (gdb) 

--- runtime.c   2003-04-11 08:44:54.000000000 +0200
+++ runtime.c.old       2003-04-11 08:44:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -685,7 +685,8 @@

        case 't':
          *symbols = arg_val(ptr);
- 
  goto next;
+ 
  ptr = NULL;
+ 
  break;

        case 'c':
          fake_tty_flag = 1;


Thanks.


cheers,
felix