From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "emacs user" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs? Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:18:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123705197 14705 80.91.229.2 (10 Aug 2005 20:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: cygwin-return-111569-goc-cygwin=m.gmane.org@cygwin.com Wed Aug 10 22:19:54 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from sourceware.org ([12.107.209.250]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2x2E-0001rT-Kq for goc-cygwin@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:18:46 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 29574 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2005 20:18:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Original-Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Original-Received: (qmail 29220 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Aug 2005 20:18:24 -0000 Original-Received: from bay107-f3.bay107.hotmail.com (HELO hotmail.com) (64.4.51.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:18:24 +0000 Original-Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:18:20 -0700 Original-Received: from 64.4.51.220 by by107fd.bay107.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:18:20 GMT X-Originating-Email: [emacs_user@hotmail.com] X-Sender: emacs_user@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: Original-To: eliz@gnu.org, jbuehler@spirentcom.com Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.os.cygwin:67804 gmane.emacs.devel:41875 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41875 I guess my question as a fairly naive user is who will bedoing that GC debugging. I am happy to check things in gdb following instructions from one of you experts... >From: Eli Zaretskii > > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:37:43 -0400 > > From: Joe Buehler > > Cc: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il, cygwin@cygwin.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > I would think that emacs would say why it is aborting. > >When GC encounters a fatal inconsistency in the Emacs data structures, >it is generally unsafe to say anything, since that could easily cause >a nested fatal signal. > > > Is there an expert on the emacs internals that would care to comment > > on what this abort might mean? > >I'm not sure I'm such an expert on this, but the file etc/DEBUG has a >special section on debugging crashes inside GC. I don't think there's >a general recipe, one just needs to follow the advice in etc/DEBUG and >find out the corrupted data structure. Once the bad data structure is >found, the next step is to trace its life cycle and find what piece of >code corrupted it. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/