Re: Out of storage error

From: Erick Gallesio <eg_at_kaolin.unice.fr>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 21:16:06 +0100

Mark Lynn writes:
>
> I keep encountering the following error
>
> *** Error:
> Out of storage
> **** FATAL ERROR IN CRITICAL CODE SECTION. ABANDON
>
> This error seems to come from STk_gc_for_newcell in gc.c.
> I have looked through the garbage collection code, and I
> fail to see how this error can be generated. The two
> possibilities are:
>
> (1) STk_gc_for_newcell must be called while Error_context ==
> ERR_FATAL which seems unlikely since ERR_FATAL is only set
> during garbage collection.
>
> OR
>
> (2) STk_freelist is not being updated to point to a new cell.
> This seems more likely, but why would this occur? If I'm really
> hitting some memory limitation, then I would expect to see
> the different error message produced in allocate_new_heap().
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!

Can you give me more details on when this error occurs, please. Or better have
you a piece of code which exhibit it?




                -- Erick
Received on Sun Mar 22 1998 - 21:30:48 CET