From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GC crashes Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:27:29 +1300 Message-ID: <16823.21921.530219.444829@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <200412071754.06950.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <16822.6213.912468.936725@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200412080217.55955.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <16822.44497.636006.297768@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <01c4dd4c$Blat.v2.2.2$f8f56020@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102536452 30758 80.91.229.6 (8 Dec 2004 20:07:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:07:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pogonyshev@gmx.net, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 21:07:25 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cc85s-0004eH-00 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:07:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cc8Fk-0003xu-At for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:17:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cc8FS-0003wf-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:17:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cc8FQ-0003vp-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:17:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cc8FQ-0003vk-IN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:17:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.124.110.16] (helo=farnswood.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cc852-0000AY-BY; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:06:36 -0500 Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6E6D56283F; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:27:30 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4dd4c$Blat.v2.2.2$f8f56020@zahav.net.il> X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30887 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30887 > > I feel the code that causes a problem is probably in unexec.c, or possibly > > emacs.c but this is just a guess and not a very educated one at that. > > These problems were reported and discussed in the past, so if someone > would like to work on fixing these problems, they would be better off > if they first search the emacs-devel archives. I don't recall much insight being shed on previous occasions and now that Valgrind (2.2.0) does work with temacs, the focus can now shift to looking at why emacs fails, i.e probably the dumping. Nick