[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #64749] VM seems to be out of sync in very rare situations for function parameters

[Arun Giridhar]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #64749 (project octave):


[comment #1 comment #1:]
> Is the function's bytecode 61947+ bytes long? If that is the case it might
be some 2^16-1 issue.
> 
> I am thinking about manipulating the bytecode compiler to always emit wide
slots
>

How many lines of code would be 65535 bytes of bytecode? Is it prudent to put
some check in the VM for the size of a function and not compile overly large
functions? Octave already does that for m-files over some large size (500
MB?), and Matlab does something similar.


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