Error: 'json_tests::chain::block_tests::BlockchainTests_GeneralStateTest_stCallCodes' has overflowed its stack

[masonforest]

Hello 👋

Thanks for building Parity!

I’m getting a stack overflow when running the JSON tests on master.

Parity version	Latest master (0a170efa)
Operating system	macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
Installed	from source

Steps to reproduce

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/paritytech/parity
$ cd parity/ethcore/src/json_tests
$ cargo test --features json-tests
…
thread 'json_tests::chain::block_tests::BlockchainTests_GeneralStateTest_stCallCodes' has overflowed its stack
fatal runtime error: stack overflow
error: process didn't exit successfully: `/Users/masonf/tmp/parity/target/debug/deps/ethcore-2362ef09be4afd18` (signal: 6, SIGABRT: process abort signal)

Full output: https://gist.github.com/masonforest/bbc887a50ffa75c86396bf244e6297af

Let me know if there's any other info I can provide that would be helpful.

[sorpaas]

Looks like this passes on release build cargo test --features json-tests --release -- BlockchainTests_GeneralStateTest_stCallCodes but would stack overflow on debug build cargo test --features json-tests -- BlockchainTests_GeneralStateTest_stCallCodes.

[tomusdrw]

It's a known issue, json-tests have to be run in --release mode since some of them are really pushing the interpreter to the limits (deeply nested calls).