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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: fabrice.popineau@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GC and stack marking
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 13:54:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7g5gfibb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8338g4bd7m.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 20 May 2014 19:57:01 +0300")

>> 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.

We should fix that.

> I think this is hopeless: I see this problem on a single system; two
> others don't have it.  It's just some semi-random garbage somehwre on
> the stack.

Of course, but if you can find where it comes from, we can fix that
one case.  After all, we don't know of any other anyway.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20 17:54 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 [this message]
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
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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