matitacLib: Gc.compact added after the compilation of mmas

[helm.git] / helm / software / matita / matitacLib.ml

diff --git a/helm/software/matita/matitacLib.ml b/helm/software/matita/matitacLib.ml
index ff9fb1d73629a468b1cde028505c56eb7385a6e3..cfec1c5072512ace47dd29b2ef4ef505d48f1959 100644 (file)
--- a/helm/software/matita/matitacLib.ml
+++ b/helm/software/matita/matitacLib.ml
@@ -381,6 +381,10 @@ module F =
       with Unix.Unix_error (Unix.ENOENT, "stat", f) when f = s -> None
     ;;
 
+(* FG: a problem was noticed in relising memory between subsequent *)
+(*     invocations of the compiler. The following might help       *)
+    let compact r = Gc.compact (); r
+
     let build options fname =
       let matita_debug = Helm_registry.get_bool "matita.debug" in
       let compile opts fname =
@@ -404,10 +408,10 @@ module F =
          let generated = Filename.chop_suffix fname ".mma" ^ ".ma" in
          let atexit = dump generated in
          let res = compile options fname in
-         let r = atexit res in
+         let r = compact (atexit res) in
          if r then r else begin
-           Sys.remove generated;
-           Printf.printf "rm %s\n" generated; flush stdout; r
+            Sys.remove generated;
+            Printf.printf "rm %s\n" generated; flush stdout; r
          end
       else
          compile options fname