[elephant-devel] stack overflow during deserialization

[Andrew Philpot]

Hi, All.

Allegro 6.2 on Linux.  FWIW, the feature combination (and allegro ics)
returns true in this session.

After a very long (10+ hours) load of data into elephant (1.2 GB of
data loaded), I have encountered a stack overflow error in elephant in
(CL:LABELS ELE::DESERIALIZE ELE::%DESERIALIZE), i.e., the LABELS
function named ELE::%DESERIALIZE inside ELE::DESERIALIZE.  

The original call was to asking for (the relatively benign):

  (ELE:GET-FROM-ROOT '(:WNVFRM :CORE "Frame:08"))

whose return value should be a hash table mapping Lisp keywords to
lists, or may not yet exist.

I couldn't do much hacking here in the error handler, but one thing
that I did see was that when ELE::DESERIALIZE was run interpreted, I
did not get any stack overflow, but when compiled, I sometimes did.  I
notice that the definition has highly aggressive optimization
declarations.  I'm going to take them out, recompile and retry my data
load.

Any suggestions or insights would be appreciated.

Andrew P.