From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: 9457@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9457: crashes and hangs during mark_object / gc: infinite recursion?
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:39:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd3fcqxri.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC5AEB76-D406-4A62-8DEA-7AE2D5A6EECA@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Wed, 7 Sep 2011 08:39:58 -0400")
> I have received 51 bug reports since April this year about crashes and hangs
> during mark_object, which always seems to be in very deep or infinite
> recursion.
mark)_object is a function that tends to always recurse very deeply.
That's normal.
Check the etc/DEBUG to see how to try and find the source of those bugs.
> The build in question is based on a very recent version of Emacs 23
> (from the repository).
You mean from the emacs23 branch?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-07 13:39 UTC|newest]
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2011-09-07 12:39 ` bug#9457: crashes and hangs during mark_object / gc: infinite recursion? David Reitter
2011-09-07 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-02-17 3:20 ` Glenn Morris
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