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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix for Mac OS X Garbage Collection Crashes
Date: 14 Oct 2003 17:31:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvismrfqy0.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2pth2uhz5.fsf@owlbear.local>

>> #define GC_MARK_STACK   GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS

This is probably a good change indeed.

> The problem is caused by a change to src/alloc.c about a month ago that
> causes garbage collection to crash under certain circumstances (when
> LISP_INT values are on the gcprolist) if GC_MARK_STACK is set to
> GC_USE_GCPROS_AS_BEFORE. The best way to fix the problem is probably to
> fix the bug introduced. I don't want to work on that. Instead I have now

That's interesting.  It needs definitely to be fixed.  Could you
give us as much info about this problem as you've encountered during
your debugging effort ?


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-14 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-12 23:57 Fix for Mac OS X Garbage Collection Crashes Andrew Choi
2003-10-14 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-10-14 22:33   ` Andrew Choi
2003-10-15 15:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-15 15:45       ` Andrew Choi
2003-10-15 17:05         ` Stefan Monnier

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