From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Kalman Reti" <kalman.reti@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mark_object crash in 22.1 and latest CVS (as of tonight)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:03:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbq9zm8gg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16af2f430711120340q27926877tf976ef397d12df16@mail.gmail.com> (Kalman Reti's message of "Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:40:23 -0500")
>> The first questions are, what object contains the bad pointer?
>> What data type is it? What data structure is it part of?
> The gdb pr output near the end of the attachment in my first message
> shows it is part of a list, which, in turn, is part of a buffer. I assumed
> someone would recognize WHAT part of a buffer from the contents of the,
> list, a mixture of conses with marker-in-no-buffer in the car of some and
> Lisp_Misc_Free in the car of others, the cdr's being negative numbers
> of pretty small absolute magnitude. If it isn't recognizable from its contents,
> I'll have to wait till I'm next at work to find out exactly which slot
> in the buffer
> this list comes from using gdb.
Sounds like the contents of the buffer-undo-list. Especially since this
variable is GC'd specially and getting it right is tricky.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-12 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 3:55 mark_object crash in 22.1 and latest CVS (as of tonight) Kalman Reti
2007-11-09 11:32 ` Kalman Reti
2007-11-10 10:19 ` Kalman Reti
[not found] ` <E1Ir5Gz-0002TS-8T@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-11-12 11:40 ` Kalman Reti
2007-11-12 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-11-13 0:30 ` Kalman Reti
2007-11-13 20:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-14 17:39 ` Kalman Reti
2007-11-14 18:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-15 1:00 ` Kalman Reti
2007-11-15 17:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-16 12:05 ` Kalman Reti
2007-11-16 14:07 ` Kalman Reti
[not found] ` <473DD32F.5070501@gmx.at>
2007-11-16 17:56 ` Kalman Reti
2007-11-17 4:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-17 5:43 ` Kalman Reti
2007-11-15 3:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-15 8:38 ` Kalman Reti
2007-11-16 20:48 ` Kalman Reti
2007-11-16 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-16 23:09 ` martin rudalics
2007-11-13 5:10 ` Richard Stallman
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