Re: Memory exhausted error
Eric Blake <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.m4.bugs |
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| Organization | Red Hat, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 12/16/20 10:27 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I’m porting flex/bison on windows and build M4 code inside executable. > > After upgrading gnulibs I caught a runtime error “memory exhausted” in macro.c file. What do you mean by updating gnulib, pointing the submodule to a newer commit? Yes, there have been a number of changes in more recent gnulib that may require some porting efforts in the matching m4 code to follow new semantics from what gnulib offers, and it looks like you have found one of them. > > obstack_blank (&argv_stack, -argc * sizeof (token_data *)); << crash here!!! > Line 390 > > } > > It seems now obstack_blank function doesn’t allow negative numbers (see > /lib/obstack.h file) That matches gnulib/NEWS for 2014-10-29; the fix is to use obstack_blank_fast() instead, when using a gnulib newer than that date. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org