From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-10-09T07:26:56+09:00
Subject: Re: GC Segfault [LONG]

Hi,

At Thu, 9 Oct 2003 01:49:39 +0900,
Hannes Wyss wrote:
> It seems that GC reaches the Stack-Limit (but then why don't I get "stack
> level too deep" ?):

Because, when stack overflowed actually, OS kernel terminates
the process immediately in kernel mode.  We can do nothing at
all.

> If I understand Ruby-Extensions correctly, the only function called in
> Rwv2 so far should be Init_rwv2()- so the only Objects to be marked should
> be the Module and its Classes and Constants:

As globals?  Yes.

> I'm pretty sure the problem must lie in my wrapper code, as I'm not
> exactly fluent in C++, but it definitely looks as if I'm stuck. What
> should my next steps be? Can I get any of you Ruby-Gods more Information?

You may need stack checking code at deeply recursing code.
Currently, however, it is not provided for extension libraries.

-- 
Nobu Nakada