bug#60237: 30.0.50; tree sitter core dumps when I edebug view a node

[Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

> I had a look, and it seems legit. In tree-sitter, a TSTree (or more
> precisely, a Subtree) is just some inlined data plus a refcounted
> pointer to the complete data. This way multiple trees share common
> subtrees/nodes. Eg, when incrementally parsing, you pass in an old
> tree and get a new tree, these two trees will share the unchanged part
> of the tree.
>
> Therefore, deleting a tree is not simply free(). Instead, you
> decrement the refcount of the subtree, and if the count == 0, free the
> data and traverse the subtree and decrementing each children’s
> refcount, and delete them if the count == 0, and so on.

And what will happen if that malloc fails, while *freeing* memory?
Anyway, the profiler should either be fixed to not hook into xmalloc, or
(better) tree-sitter should be fixed to not call xmalloc during GC.

> To traverse the tree, the function uses an array as a stack, which
> calls array_push to push new elements, which may call malloc.

How deep are those trees?