Re: [Sbcl-devel] x86 linux with 2GB< heap size

[Gábor M. <me...@re...>]

On Lunes 15 Septiembre 2008, Gábor Melis wrote:
> Hello
>
> SBCL can be started happily with [up to] --dynamic-space-size 2789 on
> my x86 box but it runs into gc trouble when the heap size is more
> than 2GB. I guess it's down to unsigned/signed long calculations in
> gencgc.c which seems pretty tedious to go through and fix. Is there
> anything else that won't work even if I fix the gc part?

It was indeed pretty tedious. Gencgc fixes are committed as 1.0.20.20. 
As to what doesn't work, I know for sure the ROOM does not as 
MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS runs into errors like "The value 2209746952 is 
not of type (SIGNED-BYTE 32)."