From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116836: Avoid GC crashes. Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:09:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83a9cg3f5q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <532CCE2F.1030406@dancol.org> <532CE5CE.8090607@dancol.org> <532CE93F.4010900@dancol.org> <87y50220rh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83ha6o3nm0.fsf@gnu.org> <532F2DE7.6050303@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395602120 17453 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2014 19:15:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 19:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 23 20:15:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WRnrj-0008PX-GD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:15:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WRnrj-000676-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:15:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46253) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WRnra-00066E-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WRnrV-00029F-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:63330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WRnrO-00023h-Kn; Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N2W00B00KQ1GQ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:10:05 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N2W00BH7L8TGB20@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:10:05 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <532F2DE7.6050303@dancol.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:170882 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:54:31 -0700 > From: Daniel Colascione > CC: dak@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > There were several crashes in GC reported since October, at least some > > of them might be related. In bug#16901, Dmitry mentioned some of > > them, but there are more. > > I thought you found something wrong with gmalloc to explain that one. Unfortunately, no. What I found was that the debugging code in gmalloc had a bugthat would flag correct code as buggy. Once those bugs were fixed, no memory-related problems were ever reported by gmalloc.