id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
1572,pbc_to_exe unusable after immutable_strings merge,doughera,,"The default code generation path in tools/dev/pbc_to_exe.pir
(i.e. the path not taken for gcc or msvc) can no longer process parrot-nqp.pbc.  (Tested as of r45861, but probably broke as part of the immutable strings merge.)  In the released version 2.3.0, I was able to run pbc_to_exe parrot-nqp.pbc in about 3 seconds.  With r45861, it paniced after 35 minutes with
{{{
./pbc_to_exe parrot-nqp.pbc
Failed allocation of 1064262424 bytes
Parrot VM: PANIC: Out of mem!
C file src/gc/alloc_memory.c, line 151
Parrot file (not available), line (not available)
}}}

Looking at the diff of pbc_to_exe.pir between 2.3.0 and r45861, it looks like there were a number of tweaks made in the generate_code_gcc branch, but analogous tweaks were not made in the default generate_code branch.  To test this, a user with gcc can simply change tools/dev/pbc_to_exe.pir to call the default generate_code branch.",bug,closed,normal,,none,2.4.0,medium,fixed,,,,,