[LLVMdev] VMKit assertion failure

[Konrad Hinsen]

On 11.04.2010, at 19:14, nicolas geoffray wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net> wrote
>> I am rather surprised that the size of a method should have an impact on stack usage, but then I haven't looked at all at how VMKit works yet. That's my next project :-)
>> 
> It has no impact on VMKit. The impact is on LLVM optimization passes that do recursive calls.

I see... Could those passes simply be skipped for code blocks that are too large? Ideally in LLVM, since it's LLVM that imposes the restriction? I don't know much about LLVM yet, but my first thought would be that a code handling system should be able to deal with code of any size. It may decide not to optimize unusual cases, but it certainly shouldn't crash.

Konrad.