Core dump using HiPE (possibly my fault ;-))

[Mikael Pettersson]

Thierry Mallard writes:
 > Greetings,
 > 
 > Vlad Dumitrescu helped me optimize a quick bench about computing some
 > numbers. You'll find the corresponding source attached to this mail.
 > 
 > I got a core dump when trying to run this test using HiPE :
 > 
 > -=-=-=-
 > [shaman@REDACTED test1]$ erl
 > Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.2 [source] [hipe]
 > 
 > Eshell V5.2  (abort with ^G)
 > 1> c(test1, [native, {hipe, [o3]}]).
 > {ok,test1}
 > 2> test1:run(10000, 10000).
 > Generating list of 10000 floats ... <0.36.0>
 > done
 > original Test time : 107.411 seconds 
 > 3> no next heap size found: 197920092, offset 0
 >                                                Aborted (core dumped)
 > -=-=--
 > 
 > The core dump goes away when i change the min_heap_size to 100 000
 > (instead of 1 000 000), so i'm not sure whereas this is a bug or simply
 > a bad use of min_heap_size.. 

Thanks for the bug report. I'll look into this problem.
So far I've been able to reproduce it on x86 with both R9B-0 (whoa, that's
ancient :->) and our current code base. I'm testing SPARC currently.

/Mikael