From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: fabrice.popineau@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GC and stack marking
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 12:12:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537BA92D.50204@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8338g4bd7m.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 05/20/2014 09:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:44:05 -0400
>>
>>> The short version of the question is: is it possible that a Lisp
>>> object which is no longer referenced by anything won't be GC'ed
>>> because it is marked by mark_stack due to some kind of coincidence?
>>
>> Yes, of course, it's what makes a conservative marking conservative.
>
> I have nothing against conservative, but this failure to GC is too
> spectacular to ignore.
>
>>> So the huge hash-table gets dumped into the emacs executable, and
>>
>> That's bad luck, indeed.
>>
>>> causes all kinds of trouble in the dumped Emacs.
>>
>> But it shouldn't cause any trouble (other than extra memory use).
>
> It does, due to all kinds of subtleties. The result is that the
> large_vectors linked list gets dumped with a pointer to a non-existent
> memory, and the dumped Emacs then crashes on the first GC when it
> tries to traverse that linked list.
Can you elaborate on how that happens? This behavior sounds like a plain
GC bug.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-20 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 16:31 GC and stack marking Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-19 18:47 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-19 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-19 19:58 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-19 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-19 20:17 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-20 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-20 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-20 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-20 17:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-20 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-20 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-21 2:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 3:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-21 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 15:57 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-05-21 16:06 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-05-21 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-21 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-22 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-22 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-24 12:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-20 19:12 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2014-05-20 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-20 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-21 2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-31 6:31 ` Florian Weimer
2014-05-31 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-05-21 19:31 Barry OReilly
2014-05-21 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 20:49 ` Barry OReilly
2014-05-22 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-22 3:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-05-22 5:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-22 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-22 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-22 14:59 ` Barry OReilly
2014-05-22 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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