From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Geoff Shannon <geoffpshannon@gmail.com>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: 17713@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17713: Compressed Forms of 'backtrace' and 'bt full' output
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:56:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k38u4gk0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+pAvvwQG=Zm1QT9TOH7uaKASydpK_Ff4Bn_G5=sDDm326tgAg@mail.gmail.com>
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:33:59 +0200
>
> Geoff Shannon <geoffpshannon@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > So I've got a hung emacs that I have attached to in a debugger. I opened a
> > new emacs to use report-emacs-bug; following the instructions I was going
> > to include the output of 'bt full'. Except that it's about 17500 lines
> > long...
> >
> > I took a look at the backtrace as well, and of the 3800 calls on the
> > list, ~3700 of them are from either mark_object or mark_vectorlike.
>
> There will be likely a lot of repetition here as this sounds like an
> infinite recursion.
I see no signs of infinite recursion in the backtrace, only some quite
deep recursion. I've seen GC go as deep as 30K recursive calls to
mark_object, so that is quite normal, certainly not unheard of.
> Just the end and the start of the traceback (enough to recognize the
> pattern in the middle) should be enough. The traceback will likely
> be because of stack overflow.
If it's infinite recursion that hits stack overflow, Emacs will crash
due to SIGSEGV, I think. Which I understand was not the case here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-06 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-06 7:08 bug#17713: 24.3.91; Emacs hung in GC? Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06 7:13 ` bug#17713: First Portion of 'backtrace` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06 7:14 ` bug#17713: First portion of `bt full` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06 7:57 ` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06 8:06 ` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06 8:51 ` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-06 7:32 ` bug#17713: Compressed Forms of 'backtrace' and 'bt full' output Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-06-06 7:59 ` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06 13:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-06 15:34 ` bug#17713: 24.3.91; Emacs hung in GC? Stefan Monnier
2014-06-08 22:01 ` Geoff Shannon
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