Asbjørn Olling (Dec 09 2023 at 13:59): Asbjørn Olling (Dec 09 2023 at 13:59):I'm working on advent of code 8-2, and I'm getting this error at runtime:
fish: Job 1, './main' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)
It happens on both roc dev and on roc build && ./main
I understand that in principle roc programs shouldn't ever segfault, so it's probably a compiler (or platform?) bug.
My code is pretty slow, so although I'm fairly sure I haven't caused an infinite recursion, I don't want to rule it out completely.
But it's not swalloing a lot of ram, and my slow function is tail recursive, so I don't think it should be that bad memory-wise either.
What steps can I take to try and debug this?
Asbjørn Olling (Dec 09 2023 at 14:17):okay yeah my function was bad. It worked exactly how I wanted it to, but I had made some incorrect assumptions about the input data :sweat_smile:
Anyway, should I expect roc functions to segfault if I do infinite recursion? Even if it's tail-recursive?
I recently learned from a friend that this is the only way for a (non-unsafe) rust program to segfault.
Maybe this is actually expected behavior from roc?
For context, it crashed after 78111 (tail-)recursions
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