From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 23:17:30 +0300 Message-ID: <834napmlut.fsf@gnu.org> References: <51F3151D.7040000@cs.utoronto.ca> <51F33565.1090406@cornell.edu> <51F33F52.4060405@cs.utoronto.ca> <51FB1D9E.5090102@cs.utoronto.ca> <20130802080211.GA18054@calimero.vinschen.de> <51FB9228.2020309@cornell.edu> <51FBA100.90005@cs.utoronto.ca> <51FD5462.5020400@cs.utoronto.ca> <51FFBDFF.7040501@cornell.edu> <51FFC4F2.8080909@cs.utoronto.ca> <5203D89E.6030801@cornell.edu> <5203DCCA.1010105@cs.utoronto.ca> <5205B364.8090007@cs.utoronto.ca> <52064730.50404@cornell.edu> <"52065B3C.6060104@cs.utoronto <520CCA41.3000107"@cs.utoronto.ca> <520D089A.1020806@cornell.edu> <83ioz6op5v.fsf@gnu.org> <520D4036.8010303@cs.utoronto.ca> <520D900A.8000907@cornell.edu> <834naqnh9t.fsf@gnu.org> <520E0FF8.1070709@cs.utoronto.ca> <83txipn4n4.fsf@gnu.org> <520E3510.8080101@cornell.edu> <83eh9tmyg7.fsf@gnu.org> <520E5D71.3020307@cornell.edu> <837gflmnpw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376684230 23631 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2013 20:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: kbrown@cornell.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 16 22:17:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VAQSN-0001d5-Ni for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:17:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33026 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAQSN-0001KO-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:17:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44618) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAQSF-0001KD-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAQSA-0001fh-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58576) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAQSA-0001fQ-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:16:58 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MRN00A004972U00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 23:16:57 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MRN00ATN4C80520@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 23:16:57 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <837gflmnpw.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162828 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:37:15 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Lisp Backtrace: > > > > Breakpoint 1, terminate_due_to_signal (sig=6, backtrace_limit=2147483647) > > at emacs.c:341 > > 341 { > > The program being debugged stopped while in a function called from GDB. > > Evaluation of the expression containing the function > > (backtrace_function) will be abandoned. > > When the function is done executing, GDB will silently stop. > > Here, GDB called backtrace_function, which triggered an assertion > violation. Which probably means that the array of specbindings > (specpdl) is corrupted. > > Is it possible that the stack of the 64-bit Cygwin binary is too > small? Can you try building Emacs with a larger stack? Another idea is to look at the value of specpdl_size at the point where Emacs crashes or aborts. Is it perhaps close to the value of max_specpdl_size?