[Ecls-list] Boehm-Weiser GC on OpenBSD

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

[Cross-posted to the ECL mailing list]

Hi,

my name is Juanjo and I am the maintainer of a Common-Lisp 
implementation called ECL (http://ecls.sf.net). For several years we 
have been using the Boehm-Weiser garbage collector successfully on 
several platforms (Linux x86/Alpha/PPC, Solaris/Sparc, OSX/PPC, Windows...)

However, our port to the OpenBSD platform fails already at 
initialization time, when we call GC_init(). More precisely, as you'll 
see below, the GC library fails when doing the first garbage collection 
in GC_init(). I could set GC_dont_precollect to 1, but then the 
collector quickly runs out of memory.

We are using v6.4 of the garbage collector, the library is configured 
with "--disable-shared --disable-threads" and I have tried both using 
GC_no_dls=1 and GC_no_dls=0 (Actually the former is preferred because we 
our interpreter garbage collects DLLs).

Any hints?

TIA,

Juanjo

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Excerpt from GDB's output when running our interpreter. If somebody is 
interested, he can grab the latest code from CVS 
(http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=30035), do "./configure" and 
"make". The process will break while running "ecl_min", which is a 
minimal version of our common-lisp environment, used for compiling and 
bootstrapping the rest:

x86-openbsd1:~/ecls/build$ uname -a
OpenBSD x86-openbsd1.cf.sourceforge.net 3.4 GENERIC#18 i386

x86-openbsd1:~/ecls/build$ gdb ecl_min
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This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd3.4"...

(gdb) run

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x1c05536d in GC_find_limit (p=0x3c017640 "\230\002¿Ï", up=0)
    at /home/users/j/jj/jjgarcia/ecls/src/gc/os_dep.c:811
811                     GC_noop1((word)(*result));
(gdb) cont

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x1c05536d in GC_find_limit (
    p=0xcfbf00fc "´û\001< \001¿Ï\236C\005\034°`\001<0z\001<D\002¿Ï", up=1)
    at /home/users/j/jj/jjgarcia/ecls/src/gc/os_dep.c:811
811                     GC_noop1((word)(*result));
(gdb) cont

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x1c052122 in GC_mark_from (mark_stack_top=0x3c0280a8, 
mark_stack=0x3c0280a8,
    mark_stack_limit=0x3c0300a8)
    at /home/users/j/jj/jjgarcia/ecls/src/gc/mark.c:759
759               deferred = *limit;
(gdb) cont

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
The program no longer exists.