From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs crash Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:52:47 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030816.155637.07634010.wl@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061182668 13109 80.91.224.253 (18 Aug 2003 04:57:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 04:57:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 18 06:57:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19oc5T-0004Ww-00 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 06:57:47 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19oc7g-0008Jr-01 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19oc4J-000791-MS for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19oc3S-0006lP-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:55:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19oc2s-0006R2-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:55:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19oc2s-0006Q0-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:55:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19oc0d-0007r8-2g; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:52:47 -0400 Original-To: Werner LEMBERG In-reply-to: <20030816.155637.07634010.wl@gnu.org> (message from Werner LEMBERG on Sat, 16 Aug 2003 15:56:37 +0200 (CEST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15998 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15998 0x081259f8 in mark_object (arg=543454268) at alloc.c:4991 4991 if (XMARKER (obj)->gcmarkbit) #0 0x081259f8 in mark_object (arg=543454268) at alloc.c:4991 obj = 6583356 cdr_count = 0 #1 0x081255e8 in mark_object (arg=1487814016) at alloc.c:4831 size = 48 i = 0 obj = 0 cdr_count = 0 You need to look at the objects being marked in these calls, and the data structure they belong to, and figure out what's invalid about the data structure. That is the first step. After that step, there will probably be more debugging to do, but we can't guess now what it will be.