My gambit is configured with  --enable-single-host --enable-c-opt --enable-gcc-opts.
I have 8G on my current laptop, but I run without a swap; the death occurs at around 6G.
It's not only the memory usage though, it takes forever too. clang on travis didn't OOM, but it took 15min on the file.

I think it might be a case of really bad interaction between the various optimizers in the 3 compilers involved. The gerbil emitted code is already heavily optimized to perform match tree linearization (I have a shiny new optimizer that optimizes match and syntax- case expansions).
That means you can't reasonably inline anything other than single use procedures within the optimized blocks.

-- vyzo


On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 8:41 PM, Marc Feeley <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
The default inlining-limit is 350, so the expansion from 100 is quite possible.

But the problem here is that gcc chokes on the compilation of the C file.  So… what are the compilation options passed to gcc?

- are you using --enable-single-host ?
- are you using a higher level of optimization such as -O2 or -O3 rather than the default -O1 ?

These will definitely increase the pressure on the C compiler.  Also, some versions of gcc do a better job at compiling large C files.  The file lib/_io.c in the Gambit distribution is about 90kloc and I have never gotten an OOM error from gcc while compiling it, even though I use a “make -j 8” (8 C compilations in parallel).  I do have 16 GB of RAM on my machine… how much RAM do you have on yours?

Marc



> On Mar 19, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo@hackzen.org> wrote:
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> It's 140kloc without the inlining declaration and just 22Kloc with the declaration.
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> -- vyzo
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> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 8:27 PM, Marc Feeley <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what is the number of LOC of C with and without the inlining-limit?
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> I’m just wondering if this should be classified as an issue, or if the inliner is just doing its work as expected.
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> Marc
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> > On Mar 19, 2018, at 2:23 PM, Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo@hackzen.org> wrote:
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> > It seems it's the inliner going haywire -- if I add a (declare (inlining-limit 100)), then it compiles in 20s.
> >
> > -- vyzo
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo@hackzen.org> wrote:
> > The attached file results in a 140kloc monster that results in gcc dying with OOM after several minutes of effort, and I would like to understand why.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > -- vyzo
> >
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