Large / many constants cause segfaults

[sjamaan]

When compiling a Scheme program containing "many" constants that are reasonably large, the resulting binary will segfault.

(use-for-syntax srfi-1)

(define-syntax generate-literals
  (ir-macro-transformer
    (lambda (i r c)
     `(begin 
        ,@(list-tabulate
            1000
            (lambda (x) 
              `(define ,(gensym) (quote ,(make-vector 1000)))))))))

(generate-literals)

This happens with vectors as well as lists (but not strings, because those are allocated statically with malloc())

[sjamaan]

OK, looks like this is a size calculation problem in C_rereclaim2 (see chicken-hackers thread).