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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:07:36 -0800
From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
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To: wang@cucers1.civil.columbia.edu
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In-Reply-To: Chen-Ying Wang's message of Wed, 8 Mar 1995 17:58:33 -0500 (EST) <Pine.A32.3.91.950308174144.30136A-100000@cucers1.civil.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [Q] crash on running mf
The trap test is always run on a version of mf with drastically limited
memory, in order to test certain effects at the limit of memory.
Unless some mixup occurred in your installation your production
version of inimf and virmf will have been made with vastly more memory.
Anyway, that is clearly not the problem. You have something creating
a serious loop, and it is probably a compilation error.
Some register or other is not being properly cleared, or is
getting a random value that prevents a loop from ever terminating. The
first thing to do is make sure that you compile with absolutely
NO optimization. 9/10 of the compilation errors of this sort
are cured by shutting off optimization. (Of course, if you have
already done this, I don't have any easy answers.)
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