From: Andrew Choi <akochoi@shaw.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix for Mac OS X Garbage Collection Crashes
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:33:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21xtfmoua.fsf@owlbear.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvismrfqy0.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
>> 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 ?
I haven't spent much time on it. Sorry I cannot be any more specific
than this: it crashed at line 5014 of src/alloc.c and at that time `obj'
seemed to contain a LISP_INT value. I don't have a recipe for repeating
the error. Sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-14 22:33 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
2003-10-14 22:33 ` Andrew Choi [this message]
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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