On Mar 23, 2007, at 1:11 AM, Olle Jonsson wrote:
> Hi all,
>;
> After getting git, and pulling, I make'd, and the end of the long
>; text flow I saw this:
>
> ./_build/binaries/io_static build.io
> io_static(16337) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=131072) failed (error
> code=3)
> io_static(16337) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
> io_static(16337) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
> make: *** [addons] Bus error
>
> I noticed no error messages during the previous text flow.
>
> After some fiddling around, thanks Quag, I pasted this horrid message
> in IRC that in Darwin, there can be problems with realloc, according
> to Bob Ippolito:
>
>> The implementation of realloc on Darwin never frees memory, so when
>;> using a
>> large buffer size on incomplete reads you end up with lots of small
>> strings that
>;> actually take up a large allocation.
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2006-March/
> 032629.html
>
> This could be of importance to the Io effort.
Thank's Olle. I haven't seen that problem on OSX, but I'll look into
it. Are you on OSX 10.4?
- Steve
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