From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix for Mac OS X Garbage Collection Crashes Date: 14 Oct 2003 17:31:57 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066168041 6744 80.91.224.253 (14 Oct 2003 21:47:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 14 23:47:19 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 1A9X0h-0002tk-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:47:19 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9X0g-0004jG-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:47:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A9Wz9-0007Vk-7D for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A9WyH-0007Sr-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A9Wxl-0006ne-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1A9WmX-0001O8-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A9WmD-0002Te-DH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:32:21 -0400 Original-Received: from vor.iro.umontreal.ca (vor.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.42]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9ELVvKS032436; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:31:57 -0400 Original-Received: by vor.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3D9423C63E; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:31:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Andrew Choi In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-MailScanner-DIRO: Found to be clean 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:17094 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17094 >> #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