From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 20:09:47 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40AF976B.2090104@math.ku.dk> References: <40A3BC23.8060000@math.ku.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085318705 10355 80.91.224.253 (23 May 2004 13:25:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 15:24:57 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRsyH-00065D-00 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 15:24:57 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRsyG-0008Pp-00 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 15:24:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BRsjo-0001y1-HU for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 23 May 2004 09:10:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BRsSM-0000C7-Nr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2004 08:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BRsM9-0007zM-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2004 08:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.170.224.162] (helo=smtp.kabelnettet.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BRhA2-0002Wc-9C; Sat, 22 May 2004 20:48:18 -0400 Original-Received: from math.ku.dk (0x52b410c6.dhcp.kabelnettet.dk [82.180.16.198]) by smtp.kabelnettet.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABF160987D; Sat, 22 May 2004 20:09:46 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:23851 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23851 Richard Stallman wrote: > #0 0x402ec781 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #1 0x080dfe0a in abort () at emacs.c:433 > #2 0x08128037 in mark_object (arg=1217041176) at alloc.c:5034 > #3 0x0812809a in mark_object (arg=-1463681024) at alloc.c:5051 > #4 0x08126b43 in mark_memory (start=0xbfffe070, end=0xbffff7e8) > at alloc.c:3700 > #5 0x08126f73 in mark_stack () at alloc.c:4055 > >Can you figure out what data structure is being traversed by those >frames? That's a lot of work, but it is the only way I know of to try >to debug a problem of this kind. > I am afraid I do not know enough about gdb and Emacs memory management to do that.